Tag: church growth

Southern Baptist Growth in Northeast: Growing Southern Baptist Churches More Likely

Membership in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont churches together grew by 1% from 2017 to 2022. Southern Baptist growth in Northeast is evident as the only region with numerical growth.

Ashley Wooldridge: Radical Generosity

When you get radically generous, it invites the blessing of God in a supernatural way. Ashley Wooldridge's journey exemplifies this principle.

Growing Relationships Rather Than Numbers

When a church focuses on the person as a whole and not the transactional relationship often, they see Christ in the person and not the person inside the local church, which begins to tare the veil of developing relationships to become pew warmers.

When Church Growth Stalls

When you find that you’ve stopped growing, you’ve probably exhausted the capacity of leaders in your organization. Is your staff ready to lead at a higher level? Are your volunteer leaders ready to duplicate their teams with a second leader?

Natasha Sistrunk Robinson: Why Do You Want to Grow?

Not everything that grows is healthy.

Are We Following the God of What Works?

5 barriers to conversion-based church planting

7 Church Growth Paradigms For Increasing Your Reach

You have to live in the tension of change if you want to experience growth. Change is never popular with everyone, but when you resist it, you are resisting the opportunity to grow. Understanding church growth paradigms is key to overcoming resistance and fostering expansion.

Beyond Growth and Decline: The Future Church Narrative

The greatest challenge for church leaders is to tell the future church narrative in a way that is beautiful and life-giving to a generation that sees the world through a lens of anxiousness and division.