by Bill Tenny-Brittian | Feb 22, 2023 | Church Revitalization, Small Church / Rural Church
My first church out of seminary had a cute little building on what the B-52s called The Atlanta Highway, better known by the locals as Highway 78. That highway ran between Athens and Atlanta and through both Between (yes, a real town) and Loganville. Ron Levin was the...
by Brian Jones | May 19, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Revitalization, Discipleship
What I am about to share with you is the single most important church growth principle I have ever learned for Senior Pastors of churches under 1,000 in size. I call it Leadership Evangelism. Leadership Evangelism is the process by which Senior Pastors single-handedly...
by Jeff Hoglen | Mar 14, 2022 | Church Health, Church Planting, Church Revitalization
I once heard a joke about statistics. The person giving the stats said – “73.267% of all stats are made up on the spot.” That may not be the case but it is difficult to trust every statistic that comes through your RSS feed. Thom Rainer and the good...
by Dave Workman | Dec 14, 2021 | Church Leadership, Church Revitalization, Servant Evangelism
In the early days of our church, founding pastor Steve Sjogren coined a simple phrase for people to use in basic “servant evangelism” outreaches. For instance, when we did free car washes…or water bottle giveaways at busy intersections…or raked leaves or...
by Ed Stetzer | Jul 30, 2021 | Church Health, Discipleship
Most of us know how essential volunteers are to making sure our churches are as effective as they need to be. Churches need to develop an ethos of valuing volunteers, but in order for churches to thrive, they would do best to raise up volunteers who are leaders and...