How To Put People At Ease About Having Spiritual Conversations
Programs alone won’t grow your church. Real impact happens when ordinary believers learn to turn everyday conversations into life-changing ones. [...]
What Does Your Church Produce?
Long pause. The professor waited for the students to answer. Crickets. Again he asked, “What does the church produce?” Another [...]
Keep the Main Thing The Main Thing
Almost twenty years later those words still ring in my ear. He continually reminded us of it in the classroom. [...]
The Highway to Church Health
Scripture provides a highway to church health—one marked by deep spiritual renewal and crystal-clear strategic direction. Its beauty is in [...]
Creating a Sense of Urgency in Your Church
The most significant discovery we've made over the past 25 years is how the life cycle impacts your church. This [...]
The Mother of Invention
The Republic by Plato contains the phrase, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention." Adapting Plato's claim to the present day, [...]
Something’s Coming!
West Side Story is an amazing musical - a sung version of Romeo & Juliet set in the urban jungle [...]
Daily Revitalization
I'm often asked how long it should take for a church to revitalize. This question is incredibly difficult to answer [...]
The GO Center Becomes Self-Aware Part 2
The move to Phoenix, AZ, in the summer of 1993 made sense. An eighty-seven year old church had declined down [...]
The GO Center Becomes Self-Aware Part 1
A story is continuing to unfold and I want to capture this story by tracking its development in my blog. [...]