Church Growth Archives - Page 47 of 53

Church Growth Archives - Page 47 of 53 - Church Executive

The difference between commentary and leadership

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Church leadership, church management, church pastors, church sermon, church speaking, commentary

May 11, 2015 at 12:56 pm.

Both commentary and leadership are needed. Sometimes they overlap — a commentator may also be a leader. But here is how they are different.

How a healthy church can spiral — quickly — into dysfunction

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church crisis management, church decline, Church Growth, Church health, Church leadership, church sickness, church spiral

May 4, 2015 at 1:44 pm.

Churches are more like organisms than they are organizations. Like an organism, when church health declines, it typically does so slowly. But there are cases when an otherwise healthy person experiences a sudden deterioration. Healthy churches can also experience a sharp decline in health. There are cases of healthy churches quickly becoming dysfunctional. Below are five ways I’ve seen churches spiral downward quickly, almost overnight.

Top 5 necessary leadership skills

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Church leadership, executive pastor leadership, Leadership lessons, leadership traits, pastor leadership

April 17, 2015 at 1:22 pm.

Every leader has different skills that make that leader unique. However, at the core of every leader — a coach, a parent, a boss and a project manager — are at least 10 necessary foundational skills needed to thrive.

Performance bonds: beneficial or a waste of money?

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Church building, church building project, Church Construction, Church expansion, church facility management, Church Finance, church performance bond, construction financing, facility stewardship

April 17, 2015 at 1:03 pm.

For most of my professional career, I have been anti-performance and payment bond-oriented. To me, they seem like such a waste of money. In short, they’re just an insurance policy (although the Surety industry would say they are not “insurance” but rather a “guarantee” — semantics!) in the unlikely event the general contractor on a job is unable to complete the project (usually due to a bankruptcy or other major catastrophe related to the contractor). In theory, that sounds great. It almost feels like the proverbial “Get Out Of Jail” card. But is it really?

What makes a leader a Christian leader?

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Christian leaders, Christian Leadership, church leaders, Church leadership, Leadership lessons, pastor leadership

April 3, 2015 at 1:04 pm.

As a big fan of Major League Baseball and Christianity, I like to keep my ears open to hearing of Christian ballplayers. It’s not that their statistics are going to be any different or that they run faster or slower. I watch them to see how they live.

Phase 3: The Campaign

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church capital campaign, Church Finance, Church fundraising, church generosity, church giving

March 30, 2015 at 12:39 pm.

In this series installment, Paul Gage spotlights the public phase of the process: the Campaign itself. It’s a critical time — and it requires plenty of prep work to get right.

Engaging children’s ministry spaces: 4 essential elements

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children's church, children's facilities, children's ministry, children's spaces, church kids, kids ministry

March 30, 2015 at 12:22 pm.

My earliest memories of Sunday school involve walking (in very uncomfortable shoes) into an old, dimly lit gymnasium and turning down a white-painted corridor. There, I entered a white-painted classroom. There were no windows and a hodgepodge of furniture.
The most memorable thing about my Sunday school room was a small, white plastic bank shaped like a church that sat on a table by the door. Here, everyone dropped in their nickel offerings as they entered class each week.
Today, that same church has an entire building devoted to children’s ministry.

Church Management Software (ChMS) Forum: Your ChMS should grow WITH you

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ChMs, church giving tools, church management software, church software, church technology

March 30, 2015 at 12:06 pm.

People are already abandoning cash and checks in favor of debit and credit cards. And, the tools they’re using now could be obsolete in 10 years. So, choosing a ChMS that stays current with giving technology is crucial. By Mark Kitts Churches that employ alternative giving methods collect more contributions more consistently than those limited […]

The healthy church

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church accounting, Church Finance, Church health, Church leadership, gauging church health, measuring church health

March 30, 2015 at 11:59 am.

The Bible has a clear definition of faith in Hebrews 11:1 — “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Simply put, the biblical definition of faith is “trusting in something you cannot explicitly prove.” As church leaders, we walk every day in faith. So, how do we marry faith and facts? The church has been put in our care, and we must be good stewards of what God has given us. So how do we care for the church?

The tension between technology and faith

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Church Finance, church generosity, church giving, church giving options, church technology, e-giving, mobile giving, text giving

March 30, 2015 at 11:56 am.

We wanted to dig more into the connection between faith, relevance and technology. So, we put together a short three-question study. We then administered this study to some of the 2,500 attendees of the Nazarene M15 Conference, held in Kansas City, MO, in February.