Vital Church Resources

Consultants & Ministries

Building Church Leaders

Assessments, resources and an online community for leadership

Change Without Compromise

Pastors conference hosted by NorthRidge Church

Church Central

Blogs, articles, videos, products and training

Church Growth Inc.

Consulting, products and seminars to facilitate church growth

Church Health Profile

Online church health survey

Church Wellness

Events, articles and reports on nurturing a healthy church

ChurchSmart Resources

Tools for church planting, church health and leadership development

Dual Reach

Training, consulting and resources to help churches strategically impact the world

Ephesians Four Ministries: Church Growth Institute

Products and tools for various church ministries

Finishing the Task

Churches starting spiritual movements everywhere—churches and missions partner together to take the Good News to the world’s remaining 6,000 unreached people groups

Lay Renewal Ministries

Events and workshops, congregational renewal, master planning, resourcing and equipping, leadership development

Ministry Advantage

Customized coaching, predesigned ministry systems and workshops

Sauls Consulting Services

Stewardship campaigns, pastoral / staff coaching and networking with church loan organizations and contractors

21st Century Strategies Inc.

Consultants, seminars, training, coaching, resources, secret shoppers

 

Articles—Church Health & Revitalization

“Different Paths to a Common Goal: Healthy, Revitalized Churches Making Disciples” by Boyce Bowdon

“Existing Church Revitalization” by East Kansas UMC

Revitalization Series (2007) by James Merritt

“Stirring the Waters” series on church revitalization by Ed Stetzer

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.

Is Gen Z Coming Back to Church?

When people born between 1997 and 2007 go to church, they attend, on average, about 23 services per year.