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5 Significant Attitude Differences That Separate Growing and Declining Churches

Declining churches don’t actually say they won’t act, they just say they’ll get to it ‘eventually,’ or someday, or ‘when the time is right’—which means never.

By contrast, as I outlined here, great leaders and great teams banish the word ‘someday’ and other words from their vocabulary.

If you want to be effective, you act.

If you want to be ineffective, you don’t.

Talk without action has little value. And too many church leaders specialize in talk.

Talk without action has little value. And too many church leaders specialize in talk.

In addition, too many church teams meet for the sake of meeting.

If you can’t remember a the last time you made a major decision that changed the course of your church, your leaders are wasting their time.

If you talk about the same issues meeting after meeting with no resolution, you’re spinning your wheels.

Does that mean you have to act on everything? Well, yes and no.

If you’re not going to act, strike the item off the agenda and move on.

If you are going to act, act. Now.

Just make a decision and move on with it. Don’t get stuck in the no man’s land of believing the lie that talking about things solves things.

As my friend Casey Graham says, action produces traction. So act.

Action produces traction. So act. @caseygraham

Want More?

If you’re passionate about the kind of leadership conversations your team is having, or you simply want to have better ones, I’m releasing a new book in a few months called Lasting Impact: 7 Powerful Conversations That Will Help Your Church Grow.

The book is designed to facilitate team discussion around seven of the most important issues facing churches today. And it has action steps for every team to take as a result of the conversation.

We released several hundred advance copies of the book last week at the Orange Conference (see above) and they’re all gone.

But the good news is the full book launch is coming this summer.

To get on the inside track of the full book release, just sign up here.

Then you won’t miss a thing.

What Do You See?

What are the attitude differences you’ve seen between growing and declining churches?