Articles on Strategy
Every church needs to have a strategy of how they want to do ministry. Foundational in deriving your strategy is your church’s culture and your place in the church universal in delivering the gospel to the lost. What is your ministry strategy?
SBC Churches and Child Sexual Abuse: Reasons for Encouragement and Optimism
Many Baptist leaders and congregation members were discouraged after the release of the Guidepost Solutions Report on May 25th, investigating actions of the SBC Executive Committee related to sexual abuse. The Report focused on [...]
New Insights on Church Planting and Multisites
From Actual Costs to Best Models What practical insights and trends could research on 3,000 church planters and campus pastors offer? Learn as findings from ECFA’s historic and groundbreaking research are unveiled along five [...]
Benevolence Support for a Woman with 4 Children
Hey Fletch ... I am an elder in a church plant. Sadly, a couple who joined our church at the beginning is now in divorce proceedings. The wife and four children attend church faithfully. [...]
How Marketing Strategies Play a Role in Creating Disciples: Using the Member Lifecycle
Making disciples is at the heart of every church. However, gone are the days when it was possible or practical for pastors to greet all members at the church door and know what’s going [...]
Culture is Currency
Your culture drives everything—how you attract great leaders, retain them and how you develop them. It even drives succession. Let’s talk about how the most important investment you can make is in your culture. This [...]
Forgetting the Sermon by Wednesday
The main segment in most worship services is the sermon. It receives the most time and is pivotal for teaching biblical truth. Yet, almost everyone listening to the sermon forgets it by Wednesday. Church [...]
He Gets Us
He Gets Us is a campaign designed to create cultural change in the way people think about Jesus and his relevance in our lives. What is “He Gets Us” all about? Our mission is [...]
Reaching Your Community
Bridging the Gap Between Online Explorers and Your Church Today more than ever, the church has the opportunity to use technology to connect with people. National advertising campaigns are spending millions of dollars to [...]
Free Easter App for Your Church
Updated April 4, 2022 with a QR code. Gregory Love and Kimberlee Norris have produced a free resource for Easter. Greg says, the app goes viral every year around this time as churches use [...]
Life in the Trenches
Current Issues that XPs Face Fletch and Keith Duff will talk on current issues that XPs face. These range from dealing with resignations in the last year, to hiring new staff, to building staff [...]
Facilities Use Fire Drill: Sexual Abuse Risk and Third-Party Use of Facilities
Boy Scouts Settlement Fund Exceeds $2.6 Billion Not every organization has chartered or hosted a Boy Scout Troop, but every organization with physical facilities must learn the lessons stemming from this massive child sexual [...]
Church Membership and Discipline
A church leader read XPastor’s article, Why Church Membership, and submitted the following thoughts on the topic. The individual suggests expanding the topic to include church discipline and gives examples from their church. This [...]
Nine Years of Surveys in a Megachurch
What I’ve Learned about Listening to Our People Watermark Community Church of Dallas uses periodic surveys to better understand congregants’ experiences, hearts, and opinions regarding COVID. Watermark is an enormous church with diverse members. [...]
Tips for Coaching Your Staff
Let's talk about tips for coaching your staff for their personal and professional development. This discussion will be with members of the Lead Self Lead Others Team. The ability of your staff to perform will [...]
New California Sexual Abuse Prevention Legislation—Requirements for ‘Youth Service Organizations’
Attorneys Greg Love and Kimberlee Norris, of MinistrySafe, address issues in a new California law. Elements of this law may be soon in your state. To whom does the new law apply? What action [...]
Opinionated Division, Steen Interviews Fletch
Matt Steen, co-founder of Chemistry Staffing, and David Fletcher, have a poignant talk about the unspoken stress that is causing Churches to make fast and bad, far-reaching decisions. In this Chemistry Conversation, David Fletcher [...]
Why Church Membership?
Hey Fletch … Why should people become members of a church and what are the tangible benefits of doing so? I need to give people a good reason, other than the spiritual ones, to [...]
Discipleship Process of Fellowship Bible of Topeka
Fellowship Bible Church of Topeka has developed an easy to read discipleship process. It gives the big picture of their discipleship method. It’s a very nice document, while being short and easy to read! Yet it [...]
How Outsourcing Helps You Build A Future-Proof Team
Hiring and maintaining full-time, on-site workers is expensive, but churches that can successfully migrate—in full or in part—to outsourced work will position themselves to adapt, survive, and ultimately thrive. As many churches likely realized [...]
Wolves Feasting on Lambs
Pastors and church leaders are biblically aware that predators will prey on their church. One of the biblical roles for the pastor is to be a shepherd and guard the lambs. What pastors generally [...]
Defending Your Church from Cybersecurity Threats
Data security breaches are constantly in the news, but the threat of phishing scams and ransomware attacks aren’t limited to large companies. In fact, ministries are increasingly under attack by savvy cyber criminals. That’s [...]
Switching Off in an Always On World
There is much conversation these days regarding the Great Resignation. Is it coming? Yes, for some. For those of you that would actually prefer to retain your best team members, start by creating a culture of [...]
Creating a Legacy Life Plan: What most older pastors said they should have done sooner
Join Fletch and Dave Travis, Director of Strategic Counsel to Pastors & Church Boards at Generis, for this fascinating topic. Dave has a vast perspective on how to build a productive legacy season in [...]
Leading in Uncertain Times, Part 2
Welcome back to part two of a two part series where I lay out the final five (of ten) principles that form a path for leading in uncertain times, whether that be a pandemic, [...]