Practical Steps To Revitalise A Declining Church
In the ever-evolving landscape of religious institutions, many churches grapple with maintaining vibrancy and relevance in changing societal dynamics. When a church begins to exhibit signs of decline, it is crucial to take proactive steps to revitalize its spiritual energy, community engagement, and overall sense of purpose. Today, decline can easily be avoided, detected, and reversed with the right dashboards, tools and techniques. Here are practical steps that can be taken to alter the course of a church heading towards a drying state.
Church Health And Dealing With Growth Barriers (Part 2)
Many churches have become bureaucratic because of the problem of Micromanaging. Micromanaging in the context of church growth is a situation where everything revolves around the the lead pastor. Your church should empower ministry leaders to take decisions regarding the areas they are heading.
Church Health And Dealing With Growth Barriers (Part 1)
God wants His body to grow just like a father wants to see his child grow; He also wants churches and Christians to reproduce their kind (bear fruit), which translates into church growth and kingdom expansion as a whole.
Conflict Management In Healthy Organization
To have a healthy organization, conflict is inevitable but as it is said ‘combat is optional’ too. People working together must have “storming” sessions after “forming” up as a team before a “performing” session can occur. That is just the normal ORDER! Breaking this order creates its own set of disorders in any system.
Breaking Growth Barriers
God wants His body to grow just like a father wants to see his child grow; He also wants churches and Christians to reproduce their kind (bear fruits), which translates into church growth and kingdom expansion as a whole. Growth is proof of life; all living things grow, and healthy growth is very essential. The church has a duty to grow both in size and health and church leaders have a responsibility to find the barriers to growth and ways to remove them. In dealing with the issue of growth, church leaders should always remember that the important question to ask is “what is preventing our church from growing?” as opposed to “what will make our church grow?”
3 Things Most Churches Do That Hold Back Church Growth
As church leaders, we know that most churches in our country aren’t growing, but have you ever asked why? What are the common factors that inhibit church growth? What are the things that we all seem to do that slow us down? What stops us from reaching the people that God wants us to reach? In what ways are we not living up to our full redemptive potential? Over the last few years, I’ve spent a tremendous amount of time, effort, and energy trying to understand growing churches. I’ve watched how they operate and gleaned lessons and principles that we can apply to our own churches in order to reach new people