Category: US Culture
5 Keys To Having Meaningful, Life-Giving Conversations With Non-Christians
guest post by Rose Meeder: At some point, if you are sincere about your Christian faith, you are going to have a conversation with someone about it. Or are you? Let me back up a minute, if “being a Christian” is something you take seriously, you are probably going to THINK […]
How to Use Social Media in Your Church
By Daniel Im: Q&A Webinars are a monthly segment designed for Plus Members to hear from leading experts in church planting, multisite, and multiplication. For this month’s segment, Ed and I talk with Chris Martin. Chris is the Content Strategist Team Leader at LifeWay Christian Resources. Social Media and the Church […]
Why and How Multicultural Leadership Strengthens You, Your Team, and the Faith
By Ed Stetzer: It was just one year ago when I came on as executive director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. In that time, we’ve hired six new staff here. Three are from different racial and ethnic backgrounds than I am and an additional two are women. And […]
5 Tell-Tale Signs Your Church Is Geared to Insiders, Not Outsiders
by Carey Nieuwhof: Pretty much every church leader I talk to says they long to reach their community. After all, the church is one of the only missions on the planet that exists for the sake of its non-members. But there’s a strange tension to which leaders are often blind: as […]
5 Things Millennials Are Looking For In a Church
by Carey Nieuwhof: One of the questions almost every church leader I know is asking is “How do we reach Millennials?”—that demographic of young adults now in their mid-twenties to age 40. It’s a great question. They’re hardly kids anymore. They’re today’s adults. And many churches have missed them altogether. One of the […]
5 Reasons Why Engagement is the New Church Attendance
by Carey Nieuwhof: If you track attendance at your church (and who doesn’t), the vast majority of church leaders are tracking numbers that probably bother them. That can lead into a death spiral of trying to drive greater attendance, only to discover more disappointment down the road. The mission of the […]
5 Signs Your Church Isn’t Ready For the Future
by Carey Nieuwhof: It’s a tough question to answer: so, is your church ready for the future? A lot of the time, I’m afraid the answer is no. Culture is changing so rapidly that’s it’s hard for anyone to keep up. Ask people what’s changing faster, the culture or the church, […]
7 Things That Will Drive Future Church Growth
by Carey Nieuwhof: You got into church leadership because you wanted to introduce people to Jesus. That’s pretty much how all of us begin, isn’t it? And yet every year, it seems to get harder to reach people. It’s not for lack of effort. Most church leaders try hard, pray hard […]
Episode 255: Tim Keller on The Vanishing Neighbor & Polarization
by NewChurches.com: In cities today, people are dividing more often than uniting and coming together. In Episode 255 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, we wanted to share snippets of Tim Keller’s talk at our last Church Planting Fellowship Network in November 2017 where he shared 5 trends in urban cities. […]
Episode 253: Gentrification & Metropolitanization
by NewChurches.com: The suburbs are becoming urbanized, which means that suburban pastors need to grow in their urban skills. In Episode 253 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, we wanted to share snippets of Tim Keller’s talk at our last Church Planting Fellowship Network in November 2017 where he shared 5 […]