Author: Esther Ritchey
10 Signs Your Organization’s Culture is Toxic
By: Carey Nieuwhof Ever wonder if your organization’s culture is toxic? Apparently, not enough leaders do. According to a Gallup survey, only 15% of employees globally are engaged at work. In America, 30% of employees are engaged, which at first sounds great. Except that means that 70% of your workforce […]
Episode 512: Success Killers
By: New Churches In Episode 512 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss what causes success to be killed and what leaders need to avoid those success killers. “What are the common things that kill the success of leaders?” In This Episode, You’ll Discover: The top three things […]
PODCAST 087: Stories & Strategy of a Digital-Only Expression of Church
By: The Church.Digital Thanks to COVID, lots of churches are operating digitally. They’re broadcasting their services online. Trying to start up Online Small Groups. As a general rule, they’re moving their physical ministry digital, or even learning how to do ministry phygitally (combining physical + digital). I’m suggesting there’s […]
The Extraordinary Calling of Ordinary People to Lead in This Season with Ken Costa
By: UnSeminary Welcome to this week’s edition of the unSeminary podcast. We’re talking with Ken Costa, the founder of God At Work and author of four books including his latest, Joseph of Arimathea. He is with us today to talk about listening and leading in this season. Stop and listen. […]
6 Components of Authentic Discipleship that Work Online
By: The Church.Digital One of the greatest pushbacks against church online is that an online church cannot provide authentic discipleship because it is not authentic community. Though I will save the authentic community argument for another post, I want to make the case here that you can provide authentic discipleship […]
The Discipline of Celebration
By: Courage to Lead I have a confession. I am a recovering perfectionist. By nature things are rarely ever “good enough.” I did say I am recovering. I have grown tremendously in this area. These days I am able to embrace and enjoy the journey more because I have learned […]
The Church’s Role in Political Engagement
Home > Blog > The Church’s Role in Political Engagement June 22, 2020 The Church’s Role in Political Engagement By New Churches Team What Is Appropriate Engagement for a Church Pastor? “It’s impossible to do faithful urban ministry and not have some engagement with politics,” explains Watson Jones III, senior […]
5 Questions About COVID-19 that Your Church Might Still Need to Answer
By: UnSeminary One of the core takeaways from 2020 so far is that we all have lacked the imagination needed to see over the horizon. Who would’ve thought that this year would bring all the challenges that it has as it relates to coronavirus? Oftentimes people say that no one […]
Manna Church’s Multisite Strategy
By: Portable Church Industries Manna Church’s Multisite Strategy Multisite | .et_post_meta_wrapper Whitepaper #2 on unique Multisite Strategies. (See the first whitepaper featuring Life.Church here). Manna Church based in NC was featured in Outreach Magazines Top 100 list on all three of their categories, Fastest Growing, Largest and Top Reproducing […]
PODCAST 085: Doug Parks, Church as Platform, and Moving Beyond the Institutional Model
By: the Church.Digital What can we, the Church, learn from Uber? AirBNB? We’re 100+ days into this COVID thing. Our buildings aren’t getting much usage. In some areas (like where I am in Florida) we’re actually worse now than ever. In that same vein, I had a pastor tell […]