Category: General Church Planting
5 Fears About Reopening that Church Staff Aren’t Telling Their Leaders
By: UnSeminary This has been a strange season to be working in the local church. Just a few months ago, we all made the pivot to entirely digital and that felt like the biggest change in our history of leading in the local church. At that point, we thought it […]
The Thing That Scares Me the Most
By: Brandon A. Cox The Thing That Scares Me the Most .et_post_meta_wrapper Know what really scares me as a pastor? It’s that my words are going to cause people to take action. People will, based on a sermon, based on a tweet, based on an interaction, or a counseling session […]
8 Easy Ways to Blow It In This Next Season of Ministry
By: Carey Nieuwhof The good news is it feels like we’re entering a new season of leadership and ministry. Although the coronavirus is still with us, churches and businesses are reopening and things that weren’t possible a month or two ago are now possible again. That’s the good news. The […]
Real Faith Moves Past Fear
By: Brandon A. Cox Real Faith Moves Past Fear .et_post_meta_wrapper James’s chapter 2, verse 18 says, “Some of you will say you have I have faith, I have deeds: show me your faith without deeds and I’ll show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one […]
Building High Trust Teams in Your Church with Rob Deveney
By: UnSeminary Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we are talking to Rob Deveney, executive pastor at Twin Rivers Church. Twin Rivers Church is located in St. Louis, Missouri. It started as a small denominational church, but has grown over the last 90 years into three locations around St. […]
Leadership in a Multicultural Church
Home > Blog > Leadership in a Multicultural Church June 10, 2020 Leadership in a Multicultural Church By New Churches Team Serve Where God Calls You Bernard Emerson grew up as the son of a pastor. His father told him, “You don’t have a choice to who and where God […]
The Need for Chat
By: The Church.digital When I was a kid, I was told that talking in church was not allowed. My parents would allow me to draw or put my head down, but talking was not permitted. As I got older, I was permitted to sit in the student section of church […]
Introverts, Disciple Making, & Freedom from Fear
By: Discipleship.org Spiritual maturity is revealed more by our relating than by our knowing or by our going. That’s an uncommon belief. Churches throughout the world pursue maturity through teaching and preaching that’s aimed at the head and feet, not the deepest parts of a person’s heart. For me the […]
Episode 498: Assimilating Through Connection During Limitations
By: New Churches In Episode 498 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss how to assimilate new members to your church as you work to worship together through limited circumstances. “This is James with Foundation Presbyterian Church just outside Columbia, S.C. We are a church plant that began […]
In-Person Attendance v. Online Attendance and The Emerging Trap Of Doing Nothing Well
By: Carey Nieuwhof As you know, these are some of the most complex times in church leadership in decades. As churches reopen their in-person gatherings, there’s one particular trap to watch out for. The early indications are that in-person church attendance is lower than anyone expected. Most leaders I connect […]