Tag: church
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10 Articles that will Help Your Church Make Vision Real
Thank you for making October a great month here at Helping Churches Make Vision Real! It’s great staying connected with you through social media and hearing that these articles have been helpful. So, thank you for connecting with me through the content on this blog! You made these the top posts from this last month.…
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Why Every Church & Organization Develops a Personality Over Time
Every church or organization develops a personality over time and it’s usually the personality of the Leader or the Sr. Leadership Team. That’s why it’s commonly said that if you’re the leader and you’ve been there more than 3 years and you don’t like something about the church or organization you’re leading all you have…
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Why Secret Sauce is Better than any X-Factor at your Church
When a church begins to grow people usually start to wonder and ask, “What’s the Secret Sauce?” or “What’s the X-Factor?” Why is this church growing? Now let me preface this article and say we know that God is the one who draws people to Himself and grows His Church. Yet, it would be disingenuous…
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What’s Wrong With Big Churches? Part-2
Some time ago I asked a simple question to the readers here at Helping Churches Make Vision Real, “What’s wrong with big churches?” As you can imagine I received some emotionally charged answers. But as I sifted through the responses there were 10 key issues that kept coming up. In Part-1 of this post I…
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What’s Wrong With Big Churches? Part-1
Big churches aren’t going away any time soon. Whoever quipped that the megachurch is dying spoke a little too soon. In fact a few years ago Leadership Network published an article in which they shared the following research about megachurches (a Protestant congregation with 2,000 or more weekly attendees – both adults and children): In…