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Shepherding: Where The Shepherds Are Shaped by the Sheep

I can’t imagine a better scenario or a sweeter season for my first pastorate. I learned that in shepherding, the sheep shape the shepherd.

The FIRST STEP in Church Revitalization May Shock You

It’s deciding what’s important. Asking questions such as, why we are a church? What would God have us to do as one? Church revitalization means changing the focus from “us” to “them."

8 Reasons Why People Aren’t Coming Back — from a Secret Shopper

Why do people decide not to come back to church? Whether I’m working with a church plant of 60 people or a megachurch of over 15,000, some things are universally important.

Teaching New Believers the Importance of Baptism

Helping new believers recognize the importance of baptism and helping church members understand their role in communicating that importance is one of your greatest challenges.

How to Experience a Breakthrough in Your Church’s Growth

How do we experience a breakthrough in church growth? There are plenty of answers in terms of systems and methodologies, models and approaches. But before we go about the reshaping of the structure or ministry of a church, we first need to experience a change in our mindset.

Why It’s Good to Run Church as a Business

We often think that business and church are opposites: it’s about money (business), or it’s about people (church). But is it possible to run the church as a business?

Phil Cooke: What Every Church Leader Needs to Know For the Coming Year

Hopefully we’re moving forward, and as we consider the next year or more, here’s two critical points pastors and church leaders need to know for the coming year

Telling Right From Wrong Can Lead Us To God

Where did we get the ability to tell right from wrong? It’s a big problem that evolution has no way of explaining human morality.

6 Reasons People Do Not Visit Your Church [Updated for 2020]

Your church wants to reach people, spread the Gospel, and grow. Why is it that new people aren’t showing up to your church like you hope and pray? Here are reasons people do not visit your church. Are any true of your church?

5 Radical Ideas for Missional Living

So many of us start out in our 20s full of dreams and idealism, and then reality hits.

How the Spirit Ignites Our Supplication

The Lord wants us to be controlled and empowered by the supernatural reality of His Holy Spirit rather than by human strategies and intellectual prowess.

How NOT to Waste This Opportunity: The Greeting

"When you welcome people to your church, do you still behave like it’s 1999?"

How to Make a Real Impact in the Lives of Others

Serve in any way you can, wherever there’s a need, big or small.

20 Ways to Cultivate Resonance in Your Connections and Relationships

The more our society "advances," the less connected we feel. Let's change that.

10 Ways We Get in the Way of God Building His Church

When things don’t go well at church, is it possible that we are getting in God’s way?

8 Ways to Start the New Year Right

The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to rest, rejoice and renew.

How to Live in a World That’s Shaking, Cracking and Crumbling

Let us practice thankfulness, seek His grace and cultivate a healthy fear of God. That’s a recipe for joy!

How to Not Be a Christian Narcissist

The Christian life is about a lot more than mere navel-gazing.

How to Really Help Someone Change

Do you want to help a person change? Give thanks to God for them. Encourage them.

How to Have a Mentoring Relationship That Has Kingdom Impact

Don't allow cultural misconceptions to prevent you from enjoying one of the most powerful relationships you can have.

‘It’s Disgusting. It’s Blasphemous.’—North Carolina Pastor Calls Out the ‘God Bless...

Pastor Loran Livingston of Central Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, recognized that "the challenges of the day are complex" in a recent sermon addressing politics, what is spiritual, and what is "civic privilege."

Steve Robinson: How To Create a Culture of Service in Your...

Steve Robinson joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can foster a culture of serving in their churches, raise up new leaders, and help people discover their giftings.

Outreach & Missions How To's