Whether you’re a church staff member or the senior pastor managing other staff pastors, I’m sure you can relate – – fulfilling your calling means having team alignment and a clear understanding of the vital role of a staff pastor! In fact, succeeding as a staff member has its own very unique challenges. Thriving in this position requires very particular skills and strategies to … Read More
Top 50 Worst Countries for Christians
Today’s guest blog comes to us from Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra for Christianity Today. 2014 was the world’s worst year for the persecution of Christians in the modern era. Until 2015 surpassed it. The 2016 World Watch List (WWL) from Open Doors analyzes how African countries now outnumber Mideast countries on the list, affecting far more Christians numerically (though not as severely). Christian … Read More
Five Reasons Why Every Pastor Should Write a Book
Have you ever thought about writing a book? As a pastor, does it seem like more work, time and energy than you have to spare? The good news is, it doesn’t have to be. It’s actually easy when you have the right system (more on that later). After studying church growth for decades (you may know me to be a … Read More
Bonuses End TODAY – New Assimilation Seminar
You won’t get a second chance with your first-time guests. Once they leave they may be gone for good. So when they walk through your doors, are you doing everything possible to create the best welcome experience, connect with them and continue to build their relationship with God and your church? Or are they slipping through the cracks?? I don’t want … Read More
Created for Another World
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis
Thwart the enemy’s plans – with a powerful Assimilation system
When an unchurched person or family decides to attend your church for the first time, what do you think is going to happen to them the morning of the service? The answer: Whatever the enemy can pull out of his bag to throw their way! He’ll do anything to keep them from attending – at the very least make sure … Read More
Remembering Study Bible Scholar Charles C. Ryrie (1925-2016)
Today’s guest post comes to us from David S. Dockery for Baptist Press News. David is the president of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Earlier this week I heard the news that Charles Caldwell Ryrie, well-known evangelical and baptistic theologian and longtime faculty member at Dallas Theological Seminary, had passed from this life into the presence of Christ (Philippians … Read More
Fastest Way to Grow Your Church – Period.
Did you know – that the average church in America only keeps one out of every 20 people who walk through the door? That means that the average church has very few first-time guests ever coming back for a second visit. Now imagine . . . if you could make a few small changes and see the majority of your first-time guests return? … Read More
Don’t Miss Out! 2016 Maximizing Easter Seminar Goes Back in the Vault TODAY!
Easter is just 5 Sundays away (yes it’s earlier this year!) and you need to begin preparing NOW if this is going to be the best Easter ever at your church. I want to do all I can to help you DOUBLE your church’s impact this Easter – to help you fully cooperate with God to reach and keep as … Read More
McGavran Monday – Gentile on the Bridge
In honor of Dr. Gary McIntosh’s new biography of Donald McGavran, here’s today’s Monday moment: “By means of the ‘Gentile on the bridge’ there came to be in town after town within a comparatively short time a considerable number of Gentile converts who remained in close organic connection with large numbers of unconverted relatives.” – Donald McGavran Secure your copy … Read More