You can feel it in the air, it’s a lack of momentum. It’s hard to put your finger on why it just feels like your church is “same ol’, same ol” and, as the leader, you’re acutely aware of it. This is normal. The church will experience lulls throughout the year. Here are 5 ways to jump-start momentum in your church.

If you haven’t counted anything other than the offering, you can start today. This will help you determine the effectiveness of outreaches, advertising, invitational culture, and ministry effectiveness.

Many of us have read Ephesians 4:12-16 and if you haven’t, stop and go read it. Here’s the thing, if you are a leader in the church, your job is to equip the people for good works.

None of us would ever admit this in public, but sometimes we can fall into the hireling mindset where we begin to think about what we do, like a job.

There is power in the mindset of a leader. If a leader feels they are barely getting by, they will move into survival mode. If the leader has a thriving mindset, they will seek to expand and take risks for the sake of growing and improving.

While the following tips may seem to be simplistic and obvious, they are the very things many pastors neglect.

What does a prevailing church in Canada look like? What do they do?

Here are 5 systems that you need to develop if you want to grow.

When you reach out into the community, you are letting the community know that you are here and that you’re here to serve. Here are 8 ways to reach into your community this fall.

Change Advances At The Speed of Trust

7 Takeaways from Leading Through Change

What I know for sure is: whatever change you make will change you.

One of the best resources we relied on, next to the Bible, was John P. Kotter’s book Leading Change. We suited his change process to our own needs and followed these eight steps.

I discovered that pastors are not leaders just because they are a pastor or the chairman of the Board. Leaders are leaders.

Change should be the one constant in your church and ministry.  Pastors are in the business of change. 

In growing churches, one leadership quality that appears time and time again is teachability.

At times, God intends not to advance the kingdom by a direct order impressed on our knower. There are times for a mature leader, schooled in the New Testament Pattern, when there is something that needs doing, something that ‘is not yet but could be’ and God lets us coalesce the passion to chase it as a result of our faith aspiration.

Everything has a life cycle; from birth to death.  Humans only have one life cycle.  A church, however, can have multiple life cycles.  From birth to maturity, to decline, to death, a church must be able to intercept the life cycle at the peak (maturity) in order to gain new life and new momentum.