Posts in category Church Growth

(Click here to read in pdf) Many pastors today in the U.S. have become discouraged by the past 15 years of popular leadership training in the …

Metro Praise International church, which began in October 2012 in Chicago, traces its roots to Metro Praise church, started in March 1999 in New Orleans …

Patrick Lencioni’s book, Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, is a very helpful and practical guide to overcoming the five most destructive traits in …

I want to introduce this lesson by giving the reader a “wake up call” with some hard-hitting facts concerning the state of churches in the …

Below are the slides and printouts used for the assessment portion of the book, “Discipleship Based Churches,” by Joe Wyrostek. Please feel free to use …

I really felt inspired to write this blog after seeing so much hype and self-promotion as of late in Christian circles on Facebook and the …

“At least three in four of those “new” attendees left another church to attend the growing megachurch. In other words, the majority of that “growth” …

As a child I was always expected to be in church every Sunday. Even if I wasn’t feeling well. Only if I was really sick …

So often I as a pastor have to deal with attitudes in the church that are not “Christ-like.” So I thought I would share the “top ten” …

I’ve been noticing the division that exists among churches in the same city and thus wanted to write an honest blog that shares some things …