Author: Sean Cronin
5 Simple Questions About the Future Every Leader Should Be Asking Right Now
By Carey Nieuwhof: Knowing what you should do as a leader in normal times is hard enough. As you may have noticed, these aren’t normal times. Trying to figure out what to do in the midst of a global crisis is so much more complicated. So how do you cut […]
Applying the 70/20/10 Learning Principle to Church
Home > Blog > Applying the 70/20/10 Learning Principle to Church Applying the 70/20/10 Learning Principle to Church By New Churches Team The 70/20/10 Adult learning principle describes the following: 70% of learning is accomplished by doing (on the job, trial and error); 20% of learning is accomplished through informal […]
The Battle to Save Our Disenfranchised Church? It's Not in Our Buildings. It's Online.
By The Church.Digital: David Kinnaman of Barna quoted the stat, and he’s way smarter than me. 30% of people will leave the church during this COVID season. Mathematically, a Christian research company is claiming your church will potentially lose 30% of your pre-COVID attendance in the coming months. Most churches, […]
Great Leaders Live the Mission
by Ken Adams: What would you think if I led a discipleship group and encouraged group members to memorize Scripture, but I never memorized Scripture myself? How would you feel if I told group members to read and study their Bibles but didn’t even crack my Bible open week after […]
Lessons In Getting People Back to In-Person Services with Kyle Mercer
By unSeminary: Welcome to the unSeminary podcast! Today we have lead pastor Kyle Mercer with us from Two Cities Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Two Cities was originally planted out of The Summit Church with J.D. Greear in 2016 and grew to about 1300 people before covid, becoming one of […]
The Western Church Needs A New Evangelism Strategy: 5 Promising Options
This post is written by Dillon Smith, a Gen Z team member at Carey Nieuwhof Communications. By Dillon Smith Even before the pandemic struck, the western church has been filling fewer and fewer stadiums over the last few decades. As Gordon Macdonald talked about in this interview, the days of Billy […]
6 Ways Pastors Struggle
Home > Blog > 6 Ways Pastors Struggle 6 Ways Pastors Struggle By Ed Stetzer When pastors go into ministry, we don’t leave behind all of the struggles that define the human reality in which we live. Like others, we struggle with any number of things each day—interpersonal relationships, our […]
Afraid of Disappointing People? 5 Ways People-Pleasing Is Starting to Hurt You in This Crisis
By Carey Nieuwhof: So you probably want people to like you and your leadership. Who doesn’t? If we’re honest with each other, most of us in leadership prefer to be be liked (rather than not liked). That’s natural and it’s not entirely unhealthy. But so many leaders would also quietly […]
The Church is Going Digital, and Venture Capitalists are Noticing
By The Church.Digital: Last week, Bloomberg.com published an article about venture funding backing religious apps. The article starts out; “COVID-19 has upended the traditional Sunday service, taking sermons from the pulpit to the screen. It’s sparking a long overdue digital awakening for churches across the country and investors are taking notice.” Even […]
Performance Reviews that Change Culture
Home > Blog > Performance Reviews that Change Culture October 28, 2020 Performance Reviews that Change Culture By New Churches Team Traditionally, we think about performance reviews in an annual-type setting, but I want to bust that up today. Here are five things to consider when it comes to performance […]