How Helpful Is a Conversion Ratio?
One way of determining evangelistic health is through a metric called conversion ratio. This ratio tells you how many people in your church it takes to win one person for Christ.
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7 Surprising Truths About Your Unchurched Neighbors
Debunking Our False Assumptions
Which Younger Generation Is More Likely to Walk Into Your Church?
While almost a third of this younger generation does not claim a particular religion (the “nones”), they attend religious services at a slightly higher rate than their Millennial and Gen X parents.
What to Say to the Worst Critics
Keep calm and use facts. Maintaining a good reputation is a biblical requirement for pastors. I can understand the visceral reaction of defensiveness when faced with a public attack. Most want to defend their good name. The problem is you escalate the issue when you respond emotionally. Learn how to be responding to harsh critics effectively.
Caution: Using a Remote Office
You can listen to each instrument of a symphony independently, but the expression and emotion of the song are absent unless you hear everyone playing together. There is a creative energy that is lost through a screen.
What Is Your Church Doing to Help Children in Need?
The church is not designed to be a shield protecting the Christian bubble of safety. Rather, the church is a vehicle engineered by God to send people into the darkest corners of the neighborhood, focusing on helping children in need.
Who’s In the Driver’s Seat? Understanding Informal Authority in Leadership
While much power comes from formal positions with legitimate authority, a different kind of power is found in leadership roles with informal authority, particularly within church settings.
Churches Are Receiving Less of Total Charitable Giving
Churches are receiving less of the total charitable giving. Overall, charitable giving is on the rise in the United States, but churches are receiving a smaller and smaller portion due to a variety of factors. The bottom line is simple: People who give see the church as merely one option among many places to give.
How Can Weaknesses of an Extroverted Pastor Become Strengths?
Partly because they are more outgoing, I believe extroverted pastors will get the benefit of the doubtmore so than introverted pastors. Many have tackled the subject of how introverts can overcome weaknesses, but this article focuses on how extroverted pastor weaknesses can become strengths.
What Does a Servant Leader Look Like?
pastors and church leaders should have a default posture of service. If you’re not willing to be a servant leader, then you are not fit to have authority and influence within the body of Christ.