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3 Starter Principles for Becoming an Innovative Small Church
This entry is part 1 of 6 in the seriesTurnaround IdeasInnovative? Small Church? Do those words belong in the same sentence? Can innovation happen in a Small Church? Is it even possible in an older...
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The Gatekeepers are Gone: Unlikely Wisdom for Pastors from a Stand-Up Comic
“The gatekeepers are gone”, said stand-up comic Patton Oswalt in a talk that has huge implications for pastors and other communicators. Oswalt continued as he held up his iPhone to a crowd of comedy...
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Why I Don’t Trust New Year’s Resolutions or 10-Year Plans
God doesn’t work on our calendar. He created days, weeks, months, seasons and years. Those are real things. We designed minutes, hours, decades and New Year’s Day on January 1. Those are made up...
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The #1 Leadership Key to Spark Innovation in a Small Church
If you want to increase your chances of working with innovators who need guidance, instead of heel-draggers who need motivation, this is the best piece of advice I can give you. I now consider it to...
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Why Be Innovative? The Amazing Advantage of the Small Church
Why bother? Your church is small. You don’t have enough money, people or facilities to be innovative, do you? That’s precisely the reason we must be innovative. Some of the world’s greatest ideas,...
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The New Small Church Discussion Forum Has Arrived!
Innovative ideas for Small Churches are everywhere. But that’s the problem. They’re everywhere, making them hard to track down and use. Every good idea I’ve ever had came from someone else. I want to...
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Hanging Out Is Holy – And Healthy Small Churches Take It Seriously
I love hanging out with innovative, passionate Small Church pastors. They have such great stories and they can’t wait to tell them. The more I listen, the more I learn. (The information in this post...
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Small Church Pastors Should Stand Tall (Podcast)
There’s a big gap in our pastoral leadership training. If you want advice and training about how to grow a big church, you have lots of great material to choose from. But do you want to know how to...
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Do Your Church Leaders Always Say No to Innovative Ideas? Try This
It had taken me months to say yes to this idea myself. But I expected them to say yes as soon as they heard it. That wasn’t a fair request to make of them, especially when the idea was a big one. They...
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Wanted: New Church Methods for New Church People
There’s nothing wrong with traditional methods of doing church. As long as you want to minister to traditional church members. People who like traditional styles of church (whatever yours may be) need...
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Innovative Churches Have Pastors with a Healthy Curiosity
There are some really boring pastors out there. Boring pastors of bored churches. At least I assume so, because I've heard the tales from their church members - usually former church members. But,...
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Hoverboards In Church? 22 Differences Between Gimmicks and Innovations
Gimmicks are like candy. They can attract our attention to a blog post, or give us a moment of fun in a church service. But you can't build a steady diet – or a strong church – on them. Instead of...
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Do We Need A Broader Definition Of Church Growth?
There's more than one way for churches to grow. But over the last forty years or so we've been given one model of church growth almost exclusively. Get more people in the building. That model is so...
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Wanted: New Church Methods for New Church People
There’s nothing wrong with traditional methods of doing church. As long as you want to minister to traditional church members. Traditionalists (whatever your tradition may be) need places to worship,...
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