Outreach Leaders

Trust me – the senior members in your congregation or donor database were cool before you were born, so give them a break. Trust them.

Every ministry in your church will naturally drift toward misalignment. In other words, your staff and ministries will eventually pursue their own purposes—not the mission of the church. Let's talk staff alignment.

If you’re going to communicate with other Christians, you need to memorize our code words and their definitions. What exactly are these code words? I’m glad you asked. What follows is a guide to understanding Christianese. Think of this as the Rosetta of the Christian world.

One of the most powerful tools to grow your church doesn't cost you a thing: word of mouth. So, what are people saying about your church?

American values are shifting, and it's hard to argue that it has been for the better.

To the Women Who Wish Their Husbands Were Spiritual Leaders - You look at him and see apathy. Laziness. It makes you sad, but mostly it makes you angry. You can see so clearly what he needs to be doing. Why won’t he just do it?

The best part of teaching women’s bible study they have previously studied is that it holds the teacher accountable not to “wing it.”

The recent climate has given way to a mass exodus from churches, mostly for terrible reasons people leave church.