Tag: church growth

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 Aspects of 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.

Beyond Growth and Decline

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

Churches Stuck in a Bubble — And Don’t Go

It’s just uncomfortable to be outside the bubble. Honestly, it’s just easier to hang out with other believers who think like we do, talk like we do, and act like we do. Outside the bubble is a different world.

How Growing Churches Strive to Make Connections

These churches are changing the way they connect with new people.