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Why struggling churches should merge with healthy churches
I strongly believe that churches coming together will inevitably save small churches from extinction and advance the expansion of the Gospel worldwide.
Four Simple Reasons Most Churches Aren't Breakout Churches
Almost a decade ago, I led a major study on churches that had reversed negative trends and become positive breakout churches. I established the criterion that the breakout had to take place without changing pastors. I knew from previous research that most breakout churches had new pastors. I wanted to see if it was likely for a church to turnaround without getting a new pastor.
For small churches hit by pandemic, Churches Helping Churches Challenge is a ‘blessing’
When the coronavirus pandemic forced the shutdown of his 35-member Ark of Safety Christian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in March, Senior Pastor Kevin Cropper said it also took a big hit financially.
5 Surprising Discoveries About Growing Churches
Let's take a few moments and look at the churches whose average worship attendance grew from 2013 to 2016. Here are five of the surprising discoveries from this research.
7 Personality Types of Sick Churches
Sick churches become dying churches. Dying churches become closed churches. In order to help create greater awareness, I have described illustratively seven personality types of sick churches.
5 Things Churches Do Well
The email stung me. The writer spoke of my negativity about local churches, about how much of my writings are about problems in local congregations.
7 Habits of Outwardly Focused Churches
It was not a dramatic moment in time. Instead it was subtle, almost too subtle to be noticed. It became evident first in mainline churches. But evangelical churches followed a few years later. The erosion was slow, but it became glaringly apparent after several years.
Top 100 Largest, Fastest-Growing Churches
With the number of megachurches in America growing at an increasingly rapid rate, the largest of them all now have a new label: "gigachurches."
Multiracial churches on the rise, Catholic churches lead in diversity: survey
American churches have grown in diversity with Catholic churches leading as the most diverse, a new study by Baylor University shows.
Churches and Reality Blindness
I consulted with hundreds of churches. Much to my dismay, I discovered that this reality blindness was common
Post-Communist Churches Face 'Post-Christian' Challenges
Post-communist churches that survived decades of Soviet domination are now confronted with new challenges as their country adopts modern secular society, noted the head of an ecumenical church body.
