Author: Sean Cronin
Do You Have a Crew to Lead Change?
Home > Blog > Do You Have a Crew to Lead Change? Do You Have a Crew to Lead Change? By Todd Adkins In my early days of ministry, you would have found me guilty of viewing the people of our congregation as vessels to be filled instead of torches […]
Beyond Vanity Metrics and Algorithms: 5 Online Benchmarks Churches Should Start Measuring
by Carey Nieuwhof: How do you measure what happened at church last weekend? How do you know that you’re actually making progress? If the goal is to turn online views into real relationships and actual discipleship, any idea what to look for to know if that’s actually transpiring? The super-inflated […]
What Is Bivocational Ministry?
Home > Blog > What Is Bivocational Ministry? What Is Bivocational Ministry? By Hugh Halter My wife and I have served in bivocational ministry for over 25 years. With our first church plant, we served in the inner city, so we often faced the pressure of “Do we take more […]
Write Your Plans with a Dry Erase Marker
By Ken Adams: I am a man who lives by a plan. The truth is, I plan out just about everything. I have an annual life plan. I make a monthly plan, and I try to consistently execute a weekly plan. I know a thing or two about having a […]
From Plateaued for 30 Years to One of the Fastest Growing Churches in the Country with Bob Riedy
By unSeminary: Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Bob Riedy from the Church of the Open Door (COD) in York, Pennsylvania. COD was started in the early 50s after breaking off of a mainline denomination. They experienced rapid growth for about 30 years, but then plateaued […]
Hiring Practices During a Pandemic
Home > Blog > Hiring Practices During a Pandemic Hiring Practices During a Pandemic By New Churches Team Even though we have been in a months-long pandemic, some churches are in a good place financially. Giving has been good, they’ve been cutting expenses, and now they are ready to hire. […]
3 Ideas For Increasing Your Influence With Gen Z
This post on influencing Gen Z is written by Shane Sanchez. Shane is The InsideOut Director for Gwinnett Church (a campus of North Point Ministries.) I recently interviewed Shane on ChurchPulse Weekly. You can listen to the interview here. By Shane Sanchez Does the idea of influencing the next generation […]
Pandemic Disciple Making: Dwelling in Darkness
By Justin Gravitt: Are you afraid of the dark? is more than a 90’s TV series. If you listen closely during this pandemic, you’ll likely hear screams bubbling up from within. The show centered around the “Midnight Society,” a group of teens who gathered together to tell spooky stories. Their […]
Is America Burning Out? (How to Minister to an Exhausted, Cynical Culture)
by Carey Nieuwhof: You know that people burn out. In fact, given the way you feel, you may have asked whether that’s what happening to you. But here’s a deeper question. Can a culture burn out? And if the answer is yes, any chance that’s happening to America in this […]
Episode 532: Staffing for Planting a Church or Campus During COVID-19
by NewChurches.com: In Episode 531 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss staffing a new church plant or a new church campus during COVID. “When you think about a campus launch, and you want to launch during COVID, what does a staffing configuration look like? How much of […]