Use Technology and Planning Tools to Grow Your Church

Use well-known church assessment and planning tools, such as Reveal, Fellowship One or Church Metrics to track your church’s progress toward its goals and to evaluate the spiritual growth of attendees. Tithing and attendance are good metrics, but these tools allow you to evaluate your church’s health in other ways, like spiritual maturity, disciple-making, salvations and baptisms.

James P. Long
James P. Longhttp://JamesPLong.com

James P. Long was formerly the editor of Outreach magazine and the author of a number of books, including Why Is God Silent When We Need Him the Most?

Hills Church: New Name, Same Mission

Hills Church has grown, in part, due to Marksman—a strategy for men focused on reaching and discipling other men that includes a 6-week Bible study boot camp.

Mike Housholder: The Wind of the Spirit

“Churches are called to make their cities better. The best way to do that is to genuinely and authentically love our neighbors. If there are needs in our community, we want to get involved.” - Pastor Mike Housholder

My Top 5 Books on Evangelism

The spiritual discipline of evangelism requires a faithful walk with the Lord, intentionality, understanding contexts, and connecting with people far from God.