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?

Amy Orr Ewing: The As/So Dynamic

Without love, all our accomplishments, efforts and breakthroughs are just noise.

Greenwood Baptist Church: No Strings Attached

The church leadership purposefully lowers what they ask their people to do so that anyone—introverts, kids, the elderly—can be involved.

How Can We Avoid ‘Believing’ the Bible While Denying What It Actually Says?

We need to learn, and teach other people, not just to read the Bible but also how to interpret it, so they don’t end up being Bible-believing heretics or Jesus-followers who follow a Jesus different than the real Jesus of the Bible and history.