Church Growth and Church Transformation
The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book 21st Century Strategies for Church Growth. The Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have done unto you” has been the hallmark of the church for nearly two millennia. However, the rule has been lately misapplied to mean, “We’ll do unto others as we would have [...]
Today’s spiritual seekers rarely turn to Christianity or to the church to find the answers they seek because of their past experiences or because of the church and faith’s reputation. Too often, spiritual seekers have turned in desperation to the church only to discover the church embroiled in “business as usual,” that leaves little room [...]
For some reason, I made it to the airport without my requisite yellow pad of paper. “No problem,” I thought, “I’ll just read and write on my iPad.” Oops … not until I get to 10,000 feet. So on the ascent I leafed through the United airlines Hemispheres magazine and an interview with Daymond John [...]
According to the American Religious Identification Survey (from Trinity College, Hartford, CN) the fastest growing “religious” affiliation growing in North America is the unaffiliated. Called the church of the nones by scholars, these are people who were once affiliated with the Christian faith, but have “opted out” of faith. Although many, perhaps even a majority, [...]
The church was soooo proud. Their choir loft was shoulder-to-shoulder with sopranos, altos, tenors, baritones, and basses. And so they didn’t see the “divide into two choirs” recommendation coming. They sounded so good and full and wasn’t that the purpose of the choir? But the choir was so overgrown that it could no longer achieve [...]
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book 21st Century Strategies for Church Growth … One of the serious shortcomings of most centers of higher learning is that they educate the head but fail to train the student. The difference between teaching and training is this: effective teaching focuses on passing information from teacher to [...]
The following post is a rough draft of a section in Chapter 1 in the upcoming book 21st Century Strategies for Church Growth. Grow Spiritual Leaders to Grow Spiritual Members Issue Today’s spiritual seekers rarely turn to Christianity or to the church to find the answers they seek because of their past experiences or because [...]
This post is Part 2 of bridging the generational technology gaps. The first part (here) examined the different generations. In this post we’ll look at some specifics on bridging the gaps. Before I start, it bears reminding you that there is more to targeting the generations than just tweaking your technology. And though this post [...]
The first technological breakthrough may have been a sharp stick by Homo erectus and it seems to have served them well for a couple hundred thousand years, but when it comes to worship in the 21st Century technological breakthroughs barely last a generation. In today’s church there are effectively four adult technology generations: The Radio [...]
Again, this is a preview from my upcoming book 21st Century Strategies for Church Growth Streamline Decision-Making with High-Trust Leaders In most churches, the decision making process is cumbersome at best and dysfunctional at worst. The solution to the issue is found in mission and vision alignment and in selecting only trustworthy leaders of integrity [...]
