Author: Paul Alexander
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How to Change things up and get your Church Growing Again
When momentum fades and growth begins to slow down at your church it can be tough to know exactly how to get things going in the right direction again. When plateau and stagnation set in it can be even more difficult to know what to do next. Many church leaders I’ve talked to become paralyzed…
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Why it may be Good and Time for a Church to Die
A dying church doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a failing church. Death and failure are not the same thing. The mission of the church is not to build a sustainable business that is annually profitable for shareholders. The Church is not a business, it’s the body of Christ and the mission of the Church is…
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5 Characteristics of Churches that Change
Over the past 7 years working with the Unstuck Group I’ve consulted with all kinds of churches. Small churches, large churches, single site churches and multisite churches, churches that are denominationally entrenched and non-denominational churches, urban churches, rural churches and yes suburban churches. Many of those churches have gone on to get unstuck and produce…
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How Healthy Is Your Church? Take a Look at the Latest Benchmarks
Church Trends from the Q1 2019 edition of The Unstuck Church Report More than eighty percent of churches are currently sitting on the downward slope of the typical church life cycle. That feels staggering to me. And truthfully, it can be discouraging looking at data like this. At The Unstuck Group, we measure church growth…
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Avoiding My Multisite Mistakes
For the past seven years I’ve been serving as an Executive Pastor in a large multisite church in the Phoenix metro area…before that it was a single site megachurch in the Phoenix metro area…but adopting a multisite strategy changed everything. If you’d have asked me back in High School when I was called into ministry…