By Carey Nieuwhof
What’s changing faster: culture or your church? Irrelevance is the gap between how quickly culture changes and how quickly your church or ministry changes. If culture is changing faster than you’re changing, then you start to see a gap. That gap is ...
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Culture


Four Ways Language Sustains Your Culture
By Steven Ackley
Creating the culture that you want in your church or ministry is hard work. After you’ve done the hard work of coaching your team and moving the ball of culture down the field, one of the worst possible scenarios is that you don’t do the ongoing work of ...
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Creating a Culture of Recruiting in Your Church –
Your church is growing, especially with young families. And with these young families come more kids in your nursery and preschool rooms during worship services. Where do you find additional volunteers to care for these children?
Your church is launching a new campus with ...
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First Impressions Ministry: What Time Is the 3 O’Clock Parade? –
By David Drury
Did you know that a common question asked of Disney World employees is this: "What time is the 3 o'clock parade?"
How would you answer that question?
Perhaps you would be inclined to answer with, "Um, it's at three, silly!"
Disney World trains their people to ...
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10 Practical First Year Priorities at a New Church – Part 2 –
by Andrew Hebert
In Part 1, I discussed the first five of ten practical priorities when you arrive at a new church. Here are the remaining five priorities for a pastor or leader who is serving in a new church or organization.
Build positive momentum by accumulating and ...
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10 Practical First Year Priorities at a New Church – Part 1 –
by Andrew Hebert
What are the most important priorities for a pastor who begins serving at a new church? I began pastoring my present church a few months ago. This is the fifth church I’ve served in a pastoral capacity. Each church has been a different size, in a different ...
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