Tag: past
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Top Posts of 2018 #5 “4 Indicators your Church is Moving in the Wrong Direction”
The “why” behind church growth and decline are always topics that generate a lot of interest here and this year was no different. This post was the 5th most popular post of the year! You may have heard me tell the story of a church that started years ago in the Phoenix east valley. This…
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7 Ways Church Leaders Unknowingly Lead their Churches to be Stuck
Churches get stuck for all kinds of reasons. Typically, when growth slows, and things begin to stall the first inclination many church leaders have is to look at external forces acting upon them to figure out why things are moving the wrong direction. While there are external reasons that churches begin to move the wrong…
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4 Indicators your Church is Moving in the Wrong Direction
You may have heard me tell the story of a church that started years ago in the Phoenix east valley. This church plant grew rapidly. Helping new people meet Jesus, they became one of the first mega churches in the east valley. Eventually the pastor, under whose leadership this growth took place, left and the…
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10 Signs your Church is Headed for Decline
When I was young my Aunt purchased a brand new car. I didn’t have a car yet so even though it wasn’t red and it had 4 doors instead of 2 I thought it was really cool. And because she had a car and I didn’t she by default was cool too. Everything was cool…
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Top 10 Reasons Churches get Stuck
For more than 18 years I’ve been working full-time in a local church setting. The last 13 of those have been in large mega-church and multi-site settings. I’ve had the unique opportunity to work with an incredible team of people at a the Unstuck Group a successful consulting firm specializing in helping churches get unstuck.…