How to Measure Real Church Growth
What are your ministry outputs?
When church leaders think about growth, they default to measuring people's participation, not their production.
[...]A Game-Changing Perspective: Knowing the Difference Between a Decentralized and Fragmented Ministry
Good church leaders know the importance of releasing and sending people to do ministry. Jesus himself moved quickly from modeling ministry for twelve leaders, to sending out those same twelve to do ministry on their own (Luke 9:1).Yet in observing [...]
The 4 Popular Perspectives on Church in the Last 50 Years (and How the Term "Missional" Fits In)
A pastor friend sent me an e-mail yesterday asking for some guidance with a missional book reading list by Sentralized. As I typed a response, I sent him a chapter that puts "missional" in perspective of how we think about [...]
The Guide to Ministry Model Making
In the introduction to Church Unique, I shared my passion that instead of leading a great model, "I would rather work behind the scenes as a model maker. My greatest joy is seeing a leader for the first time articulate [...]
6 Extremely Powerful Questions for Simple Ministry Design
This is the second post related to a forthcoming ebook. The first post was titled the Tyranny of More, (6 Common Myths that Drive Churches to Do Too Much) You can still comment there to ensure a free copy of the [...]
