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?
The Next Big Trend for Churches Post COVID
Fletch talks with William Vanderbloemen about the next steps for the church. We are in challenging times and COVID-19 is here for a while longer. Perhaps the end date will be the arrival of [...]
Inside a Church Merger: The Good, Bad and Ugly from Actual Examples
Let’s go inside two different mergers. One looks through the eyes of the joining church, exploring what led up to starting the merger conversation, what issues they needed to work through, what they feared [...]
Developing Female Leaders: Navigate the Minefields and Release the Potential of Women in Your Church
Kadi puts it this way: “What would your church look like if it were to maximize the dormant gifts of the women God has brought there?” That’s a questions that every male and female [...]
Cultivate an Extraordinary Team Culture
Fletch talks with Jenni about Team Culture. Crisis either unites or divides us. And my guess is that you are seeing this more than ever with your team. You want your team to be [...]
Reinvent Your Church with Mission-Based Impact
Fletch talks with Mike Batts on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that churches have to reinvent themselves. Mike is the managing partner of Batts Morrison Wales & Lee. He has more than 30 years of experience serving [...]
Leadership During Crisis: Guiding the Ship through the Storm
No one could have imagined as we began the new year the challenges we would be facing in our ministries, in our relationships, our finances, and our personal lives caused by the “invisible enemy”—Covid-19. [...]
Rethinking Normal: Making the Most of Our Golden Opportunity to Start Again
Anxious to get your church back to normal? You could miss the most effective ministry season of your life. Dumpster Day? Wait, what? I wondered to myself. Sitting in on a Zoom meeting with the [...]
Kim Kira and Bobby Scott Discuss Race Relations
What makes this video of high value is that it is between an Asian American and and African American. This gives good insights into the care that we all must take to root out [...]
Five Reasons Your Organization May Want to Elect the 8-Week Covered Period for Its PPP Loan
The Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act (the “Flex Act”), which became law on June 5, 2020, replaces the 8-week period (referred to in the law as the “Covered Period”) for spending Paycheck Protection Program [...]
Registering to Attend our Church Service … Really?
If you ever attended a sporting event or concert, you likely paid for a ticket and in some cases obtained a reserved seat for that ticket. You may have even tried to obtain entrance [...]
Improv Leadership: How to Lead Well in Every Moment
Fletch talks with Stan Endicott, co-founder of Slingshot Group. Stan has developed Improv Leadership. Improv leaders apply five competencies to initiate powerful conversations, create memorable moments, and craft personal coaching strategies that help people [...]
Reopening Your Church
Christianity Today’s Church Law & Tax recently launched ReopeningYourChurch. This is free website curating important content from Church Law & Tax and other sister websites, including Preaching Today and Small Groups. The goal: A trusted [...]
6 Powerful Currents to Saturate Your City for Christ
Fletch talks with Tim Lucas and Warren Bird on a fascinating story of a New Jersey church that began “on accident” and grew into one of America’s 100 Fastest-Growing Churches, with over 5,000 in [...]
Racial Issues & the Church: Is “Blackout Tuesday” the Best Answer?
Four church leaders explore race relations in the church and society. Fletch and Mike Gould will be joined by XPs Nicholas Smith and Tim Samuel. First we listened to Nick and Tim share perspectives from [...]
Re-Opening Checklist for Portable Churches
It’s a confusing time we live in now–especially if you are a leader in the church. Generally, leading is very real work. Specifically, leading during a time of pandemic is simply exhausting. Why? Because [...]
How Churches Can Benefit From The Remote Workforce
It's estimated that by the year 2020, 43% of the workforce will be freelance, 60 million people. That’s roughly four times the number in 2015 of 15.5 million. Moreover, businesses and churches are discovering [...]
Befriending Your Monsters
Luke Norsworthy started a powerful conversation at this year's XP-Seminar. Many pastors were deeply moved by Luke's talk. Join us for more as Fletch and Luke Norsworthy discuss Luke's latest book, Befriending Your Monsters: [...]
Setting Vision for Your Church
Vision is more than one short statement. Your church needs that short statement but it also needs much more. The vision statement is the tip of the iceberg. Vision statements set out far-reaching goals and [...]
PPP Loan Good Faith Certification: Now What?
As CapinCrouse previously reported, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has announced that the Small Business Administration (SBA) will perform a “full audit” of the loan applications of all recipients of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans [...]
How to Measure Online Attendance?
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated change in churches at arguably the fastest rate in history! Back in 2015, megachurches led the church world in offering online church: 30% of megachurches offered an online campus [...]
Protocols for Reopening the Church
There are a maze of documents and websites covering when and how to reopen a church for live worship services and events. Tom Krawczyk is a Campus Pastor at Thornapple Valley Church in Michigan. [...]
Cass Commercial Bank: Outstanding Customer Service in the Pandemic
Cass Commercial Bank has shown tremendous help to its clients during the pandemic. The following note demonstrates their concern. It begins with the important question of "how you are doing?" It then acknowledges the [...]
Leadership Live: Connecting to the Congregation
Leadership Live is a concept that Village Bible Church developed to connect with its congregation. Village Bible is a church of 1,500 people, spread across 5 campuses. They were looking for ways to connect with [...]
What Church Leaders Must Do, and Not Do, in the Pandemic
One of the CEOs I coach leads an organization with almost five hundred employees. In a video call with him this week, he began by explaining how he spent two days calculating when the [...]