Tag: risk
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How to Say No to Ministry Opportunities and Why You Should
As the ministry you’re a part of grows, you’re going to have more opportunities available to you. Good opportunities. Some of them great opportunities. But just because you’re given some great opportunities doesn’t mean they’re the right opportunities. One of the more difficult things you’ll ever do as a leader of a growing church or…
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Why Some Churches Win But Most Lose
Not every church is winning. In fact Thom Rainer, President and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources has stated in his research that: “Eight out of ten of the approximately 400,000 churches in the United States are declining or have plateaued.” There are a lot of reasons why 80% of churches in America aren’t winning and…
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5 Keys to Developing Young Leaders in Your Church
It seems like everywhere you turn lately some national church leader is writing about the bleak future of the US Church due to younger generations leaving. Well, recently I spent some time at a place that made me really hopeful about the future of the church in America. This past weekend I had the opportunity…
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Top Posts of 2014 #7: “4 Reasons Why Churches become Insider Focused”
Another late addition to the top 10 posts of 2014 comes in at number 7. I wrote this at the beginning of December but it quickly became one of the most shared and most popular posts of the year! It’s rare that I ever come across a church that started off as an insider focused…