Tag: church
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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…
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2 Fatal Church Leadership Mistakes
When it comes to leading a church, there a lot of things that can go wrong that are outside of a pastor’s control. However, the other side of that coin is also true. There are a lot of wrong things that pastors do that are well within their control. This isn’t an exhaustive list by…