Blog Posts and Articles to Help Revitalize Your Church
What Is The Difference Between Church Revitalization And Replanting?
Learn the key differences between church revitalization and replanting, and discover which approach might be right for your struggling congregation. Expert insights on bringing new life to declining churches through practical steps and proven strategies.
How Do Churches Find a New Pastor?
Learn how to find your next pastor with this comprehensive guide for churches in transition. Get expert advice on assessment tools, interviewing candidates, setting compensation, and ensuring a successful pastoral transition. Perfect for search committees and church leadership teams navigating the pastoral search process.
Rethinking Church Governance
Is your church's governance structure helping or hurting its mission? Implement an effective leadership model that balances accountability with empowerment. This guide explains how to structure church leadership through a College of Elders, Elder Board, Executive Team, and Ministry Leaders to create clear roles, improve decision-making, and maintain focus on discipleship and mission.
Transforming Your Church From the Inside Out
As pastors labor to lead their congregations into a new season of health and vitality, keeping the vision and values at the forefront is paramount. Real revitalization flows from the inside out, as God works to align a congregation's culture with His Kingdom purposes. Cosmetic fixes may attract visitors in the short term, but they will not produce the kind of deep-rooted change that is necessary for long-term health and vitality.
Building a Vision Team for Healthy Church Revitalization
No one leader, no matter how gifted, has all the gifts and skills needed to effectively lead a church through major change. It takes a team with complementary strengths.
The Indispensable Role of Leadership in Church Revitalization
The spiritual gifts of teaching, preaching and shepherding are important for every pastor. But without a clear gift of leadership, it is nearly impossible to move a church from where it is to where it needs to be.
Unity: The Essential Foundation for Church Revitalization
Revitalizing a church is not easy, and it's not quick. It requires perseverance, humility, and a deep dependence on God's leading. But when a congregation is truly united around a God-given vision, amazing things can happen.
Three Ingredients to a Stronger Church Budget
As a church leader, if you want to grow your financial base and expand your ministry impact, you need to prioritize discipleship in the area of financial stewardship. This involves equipping members with the competency to manage their money well, inspiring them with a vision for generosity, and building their confidence through financial transparency and accountability.
The Power of a Shared Vision & Common Culture
When The Local Church is Unified, They Can Accomplish Great Things for God
Core Values That Create Culture
As a pastor, you have huge influence over your church’s culture—whether you realize it or not.
Creating an Intentional Discipleship Pathway
When your church is stagnant or in decline, it's tempting to try new programs or events to jumpstart things. And those things aren’t necessarily bad things, but one thing that is truly needed is a renewal of the church's core discipleship pathway - the process of helping people discover Jesus and grow into mature and equipped followers.
Finding Our Purpose, Defining Our Mission
With clarity of purpose and mission, your diverse strategies, programs and activities all become part of advancing the same overall vision. This alignment provides momentum, multiplication and staying power.