Author: Sean Cronin
A Visible Presence
If you’re planting a church, think for a minute how your church will have a visible presence in your community beyond Sunday morning. Where will its collective presence be felt Monday through Saturday? Many established churches are visible in their community during the week because they have a building. However, […]
Outreach Strategy Template
If you’re a church planter, one of your responsibilities is to not only serve your neighbors, but to inspire and equip others to do it as well. As a leader you get to challenge your team members to serve their neighbors in a way that creates energy, excitement, and momentum […]
Prayer Walking
If you have a desire to share God’s love and truth with your neighbors this summer, your priority should be to pray for them. As it’s been said, “You can do more than pray once you have prayed, but you can’t do more than pray until you have prayed.” When […]
How To Lead Better One-on-One Meetings
By Shawn Lovejoy: Of all of the tensions you will face as a leader, the tension you will have the most self-doubt and inner turmoil over is the tension around the people you lead. I am talking about Team Tensions! Ever felt those? Thought so. So have I! While I […]
Why Role Clarity Is Vital
Home > Blog > Why Role Clarity Is Vital Why Role Clarity Is Vital By New Churches Team During COVID, so many churches changed people’s job descriptions. Many people, both paid staff and volunteers, may not have even had a job description. Some churches saw higher rates of attendance and […]
CNLP 417: Simon Sinek on Why the Church is Losing Ground, the Importance of Existential Flex and How Deep, Personal Crisis Spawned Start With Why
By Carey Nieuwhof: Simon Sinek unpacks his back story, including how his grandfather shaped him, how ADHD impacted his leadership and how a deep, personal crisis led to him developing the ideas behind Start With Why. Simon also talks about how existential flex is so important in a post-pandemic world, […]
Episode 594: Leading People You Don’t Like
By NewChurches.com: In Episode 594 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss how you lead people you don’t like. In This Episode, You’ll Discover: Why it’s important to learn how to handle difficult team members How prayer can draw you closer together Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches): “In a multisite […]
Pete Briscoe’s Lessons from Coming Alongside Senior Leaders to Help with Communication & Self Care
By unSeminary: Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Pete Briscoe, who served as the senior pastor for nearly three decades at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship in Carrollton, Texas, and now consults with and coaches pastors. He is with us today to talk about growing communication skills […]
How to Pastor a Mob
By Craig Nieuwhof: How do you pastor a mob? The truth is you can’t. At least not easily. The only problem is that right now you have to. In the last few years, we’ve moved from an era of reasonable consensus to polarization, partisanship, and division. That’s true of congregations, boards, […]
Does Church Branding Matter?
Home > Blog > Does Church Branding Matter? Does Church Branding Matter? By Nancy Cornwell Should branding matter for your church? Let’s think through this topic both biblically and practically if it matters and what you need to do about it. Every church has a brand. There is no such […]