Healthy Leaders: The Key to Healthy Churches
One year ago, Nathan Heady, pastor of Friendship Church in Cookville, TN reached out to Healthy Growing Churches in hope of starting a new life cycle for his church through the consultation process. Friendship Church was a single cell church, a church where everyone knew everyone else, it was […]
Are You a Thermostat or a Thermometer?
Are you more concerned about your style of worship service than the kind of disciple you are producing? Which gets more of your time, money or resources? From his jail cell in Birmingham Alabama on April 16, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. penned a letter that should still the soul […]
Happy New Year!
During our most recent HGC staff meeting, I asked the team to each describe how they were currently feeling in a single word. It was fun to hear the variety of words chosen and even more fun to hear the reasons why. The word I shared to describe me was […]
Committing to a Cause
Toward the end of the year it is somewhat daunting to consider committing to support a cause of ministry. We all know that the month of December is full of requests from nonprofits asking for money; having been a decision maker for a giving church or organization investing hundreds of […]
Moving Toward Micro
Regardless of a church’s current size, I firmly believe revolutionary change will happen in the Church when courageous leaders are willing to embrace a new scorecard and intentionally focus on making and mobilizing biblical disciples. When this happens, we’ll see churches not only making disciples, but also reproducing and multiplying.
Live By Listening
In relationships that really matter, such as spouses, friends, clients, and significant others, listening skills can make or break the relationship. Listening deeper is possible and can have significant impact.
7 Ways an Interim Pastor can help a Church in Transition
When a church finds itself without a pastor—whether because of resignation, firing, or death—it is a crucial time. It could be a time when a church comes apart, or it could be that the congregation comes together. A good interim pastor can do a lot to help a congregation navigate this unsettled, often stormy time.
In the Face of Frustration
Frustration in the face of the way things are makes us open to the big lie. Frustration and fear and anger can suspend our ability to ask difficult questions, to listen to thoughtful critics, to do our homework.— Seth Godin In all of the churches I have either worked with […]
