Should You Add Another Easter Worship Service?
…people with the Easter message. This material is adapted from Overflow: Increase Worship Attendance and Bear More Fruit (Abingdon, 2013) by Lovett H. Weems, Jr., and Tom Berlin and used…
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Not Safe for Church: Ten Commandments for Reaching New Generations
…intend to actually doing it. This book provides tools to help churches re-frame the Good News in nontraditional ways and study questions for church leadership teams. Available at Cokesbury and…
Transforming Community: The Wesleyan Way to Missional Congregations
…way to form missional communities and congregations. Drawing from John Wesley’s own organizing abilities, this will better equip today’s congregations to be more transfomational. Each chapter also has study questions….
The Secret to Great Preaching
…outstanding communicator. The Bible says of Jesus, “The large crowd listened to him with delight” (Mark 12:37). Why? Because he engaged them. He walked among them, listening to them, caring…
Why Tradition Matters at Christmas
…promise from Luke (Luke 1:26-35), give us a flesh-and-bone opportunity to hear and participate in the reality that God is present in fullness and in emptiness — that God is…
Small Church as Surrogate Family
…Press, 2017) by Lewis A. Parks. Used by Permission. The book is available at Cokesbury and Amazon. Related Resources Eleven Characteristics of Effective Smaller Churches by David R. Ray A…
An Annual Meeting as a Celebration of Faithfulness
…God’s future. This article is taken from Thomas F. Tumblin’s AdMinistry: The Nuts and Bolts of Church Administration (Abingdon Press, 2017.) The book is available at Cokesbury and Amazon. Related…
Revitalizing Worship is More than a Question of Style
…the acts of worship? Sitting in your pews or seats on Sunday morning are musicians, artists, decorators, computer programmers, storytellers, comedians, writers — the gifts are endless. What are the…
The Case of a Small Church in an Oversized Building
…to ask (estimated cost $42,000). The organist reminded me that the “leaking expression shades” need repair soon ($29,000) and a hole in the “blower reservoir” needs repair now ($4,000). “Should…
5 Steps to Church Vitality and Turnaround
…ministry charting, community or church diagnostics, demographic data such as U.S. Census and Mission Insight data, asset mapping, community assessments, and ministry-by-walking-around — to help in the process of ministry…
Risking Experiments for God’s Reign
…say, “Of course,” or “It’s about time,” rather than “Do we have to do it?” John Wesley understood well that the “forms” of true religion remain even after the “power”…
Worship and Mission Should Go Hand in Hand
…up every time disciples are together: “For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them” (Matt18:20). This includes worship. When we ignore God’s active…
5 Practices for Fruitful Congregations in a Post-Attractional Era
…ideas of doing things “differently.” Teaching people to “do things our way” must be intermixed with “learning new things” from others. Doing ministry “for” becomes doing ministry “with.” Welcoming the…
5 Ways to Develop New Leaders
…success. This article is excerpted from Unleash: Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders (Abingdon Press, 2018) by Marv Nelson. Used by permission. The book is available at Cokesbury and Amazon….
Episode 20: “Ministry Beyond the Wall: Revisiting the Five Fruitful Practices” featuring Robert Schnase
How can congregations more effectively practice fruitful ministry? In this episode Bishop Robert Schnase discusses his revised book, Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, with Lewis Center Director F. Douglas Powe….
Unforeseen Leaders Emerge from Charleston Tragedy
…The Lyman Beecher Lecture on Preaching, Yale University, 1907. Taken together, these two books forged a powerful connection in my mind. In his lectures, P.T. Forsyth said, “The one great…
3 Ways Not to Respond to Criticism
…easily — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” For leaders, criticism is inevitable. How we handle it determines whether it becomes a “little fox that spoils the vines.”…
Is Nostalgia Sabotaging Your Church’s Future?
…Hulton Archive / Getty Images / Universal Images Group; Three Lions / Hulton Archive / Getty Images / Universal Images Group; Doreen Spooner / Hulton Archive / Getty Images /…
Stop Telling People to Turn Off Their Smartphones in Church
…masses. This article is excerpted from 4D Impact: Smash Barriers Like a Smart Church (Abingdon Press, 2019) by Olu Brown. Used by permission. The book is available at Cokesbury and…
A Simple Step-by-Step Process for Creating a Narrative Budget
…the organist can be allocated to worship (100%), but $2,000 budgeted for community meals could be allocated as $1,000 for fellowship and $1,000 for mission. Step 4. Calculate the percent…
5 Reasons Why the Church of the Future Will be Online
…interviewing Diana Butler Bass. The question I recall him asking is, “Diana, where is the church going to be in 50 years?” Her answer was succinct: “On the internet.” This…
How Can Your Church Building Reignite Your Mission?
…see how they can help reignite your congregation’s mission. Every brick, beam, shingle, stained-glass window, and pew of our buildings came into being through the generous, often sacrificial giving of…
F.I.S.H. Differently! Take Stock of all Available Capital Resources
…adapted from Fishing Differently: Ministry Formation in the Marketplace by Sidney S. Williams, Jr. (Certa Publishing, 2018). The book is available at Amazon. Related Resources Protect, Sustain, Grow: Best Practices…
Is Your Church Like Fine China? Proper, Pretty, and Only for Special Occasions?
…what words come to mind when she looks at my beloved grandmother’s china. She said “Pretty. Fragile. Untouchable. Distant. I don’t think about that china much. Only on special occasions.”…
Leading When You Don’t Know the Way
…different from leadership during stable times. Problematically, however, many church leaders invest their energy in traditional leadership activities: vision casting, advocating for big new ideas, striving for growth, and mastering…
Nurturing a Dementia-Friendly Church
…and commented, “It’s from the church,” she squinted her eyes as she looked. Then with pathos in her voice she said slowly, “Linda! That’s me!” It was the last time…
Ways Your Building Can Generate Income and Bless Your Community
…scale, like loft apartments, for instance. Such thinking makes spiritual, social, and financial sense today. It is the type of good work that brings glory to God (Matt 5:16), advances…
What Does Religious Freedom Mean Today?
…of Christianity, often living where one numerically strong tradition shaped the religious ethos of the region. For others, Will Herberg’s classic book, Protestant, Catholic, Jew (1955), describes the shape of…
Are You Teaching People about Faith? Or How to Practice It?
…educating people, age-level ministry becomes incredibly important because teaching a five-year-old is different than teaching a ten-year-old, a youth, or a young adult. But if the focus is on developing…
Preaching to an Empty Room
…with “our,” not “my.” Says Stamm, “Even when we pray by ourselves in a solitary place, we should imagine that we are joined spiritually with our sisters and brothers around…
