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?

Community Christian Church: A Warm Welcome

When people visit Community and decide to stay, Pastor John Scott says, it’s because of the worship, the teaching, the children’s ministry and, most importantly, the feeling of belonging.

Ministry in the Marketplace

If we want to see a church planting movement in every place and people group, we must engage with covocational leaders.

Ed Stetzer: Coming Back

We have to take a step back as we teach God’s Word, building upon the grand narrative of redemption to show how every issue dealt with in the story of God is centered in Christ.