Small Church

The Strengths of Smaller Healthy Churches

Small churches can create a family environment for disconnected people if they lean into the built-in intimacy they already have.

Why More Pastors Are Considering Covocational Ministry

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

Lebanon Baptist Church: A Sweet Way to Serve

Churches seem to have an expectation that people need to come to us. We need to change that paradigm.

6 Ways to Find Fresh Outreach Ideas

Kevin Harney: "Where do you find great outreach programs and innovative ideas? Here are some of my best suggestions."

3 Ways We Miss the Mark in Church Worship

"We serve a God who loved the broken prayer of an outcast more than the confident eloquence of a Pharisee."

4 Differences Between Healthy and Unhealthy Churches

"The differences between healthy churches and unhealthy churches can be so slight, yet so deadly."

7 Indicators of Church Health

"Church growth is a 'basic instinct' for church leaders. However, church growth without church health is asking for trouble."

5 Strategies to Ignite Outreach in Your Church

Bobby Gruenewald: "Let these outreach strategies spark your team’s creative planning and problem solving."

6 Ways to Mobilize More Volunteers

"It seems the old 80/20 rule often rules—20 percent of the people do 80 percent of the work. But it doesn’t have to be like that."

Avoiding the Tradition Trap

Ed Stetzer: "We must not value our cultural expressions of the past more than the people God has sent us to in the present."

4 Steps to Generating Church Momentum

"If your church is slowly growing, struggling or just plain stuck, there is a process that can help you get moving and get growing."