Author: Carey Nieuwhof
5 Things About Leadership My 25-Year-Old Self Never Would Have Believed
by Carey Nieuwhof: Oh to know then what you know now. It never works that way, though, does it? This past weekend, I celebrated a birthday. It was a good one. I spent much of the day being grateful, but it also made me realize how much I’ve learned over […]
Prepare for Easter: Onramps
This Article is from Replicate’s Prepare for Easter Series by Chris Swain: In the early ’00s, as cell phones were becoming commonplace, I switched from printing off directions for long road trips to calling my wife on my mobile. She loved this process as you could imagine (please read that […]
WHY THE WORLD NEEDS YOU TO HAVE A MISSION STATEMENT
Post navigation Share Tweet Print Email by Peyton Jones: Launching with the right focus is essential if your plant is going to avoid defaulting into just another big church after you’ve grown. If you’re using the New Testament apostolic model, then the solution is hard-wired into your church already. You’re […]
Has Your Leadership Peaked? Leadership And The Theory of the Ten Year Run.
by Cary Nieuwhof: The last thing you want as a leader is to have your best days behind you. But it happens all the time, long before a leader steps out of leadership. The questions are how does it happen…and, more importantly, what can you do about it? Sadly, you […]
8 Alternatives to Calling Another Team Meeting at Your Church
by unSeminary: You’ve been there, in that never-ending meeting where all you can think about is the fact that the next thing on your to-do list is yet another meeting! You’ve thought it before, “There has got to be a better way of doing meetings at the church.” A few […]
Building an Evangelistic Culture
by Robby Flack: Evangelism. Just hearing the word can send shivers down our spines. It’s a scary word for most people. It’s a word that can cause us to immediately come up with a thousand excuses about why we aren’t ready to actually do it or why right now isn’t […]
15 Steps to Keeping Life Simple
By Jim Wideman: Life can get wild and ministry can get crazy. When you don’t think things can get any busier, they can and they do. In my life I’ve learned “busy” is a relative term. What one person calls busy is not busy to another. The fact is no […]
CNLP 251: Drew Powell and Matt Warren on Why Attractional Church is Past Peak, Why It’s Changing and What’s Next for Weekend Services
by Carey Nieuwhof: The attractional church model has been the dominant church model for 20 years in growing churches and many leaders are noticing it’s not nearly as effective as it used to be. Few churches were better known for the attractional model than Cross Point Church in Nashville, TN. […]
What if John Stott, John Wimber, Dallas Willard & Andy Stanley Planted a Church with Jon Thompson?
by unSeminary: Welcome back to this week’s episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today I have on Jon Thompson, pastor at C4 Church near Toronto, Canada. What’s happening at C4 is really unique. C4 is over 35 years old, but there has been an increase in the membership in the last […]
Why Is the Culture of a Disciple Making Church So Important?
by Bobby Harrington: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” That statement, attributed to the most influential management guru of our time, Peter Drucker, describes a reality church leaders must face in the pursuit of creating disciple making churches. A disciple making church culture is what your church actually does in disciple […]