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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."
9 Traits of Mean Churches
I received two emails this week from church members who made that very statement. The members are from two different churches in two different states. One of the churches belongs to a denomination; the other is non-denominational. In both cases the church members made the decision to drop out of local church life altogether.
Why smaller churches must be better at hospitality than larger churches
How can a smaller church make a splash with hospitality?
$250K donated to help churches impacted by COVID-19; over 50 churches chosen for grants
A new initiative championed by retired NFL tight end Benjamin Watson and the AND Campaign to help churches in danger of closing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has raised over $250,000 in its first week of fundraising.
Online churches: New research and insights
I see a pattern developing in online churches. Perhaps it is a trend. The overall pattern is that online ministries of churches are becoming a strategic part of the overall church ministry.
Seven Distinguishing Characteristics of Unified Churches
The exercise was simple. I made a list of over 30 of the most unified churches I know. Some of them have been my clients in the past. I then made a list of over 40 fragmented churches (they were easier to find). From that point I began to answer my own questions: What makes this church look like it's unified? What makes this other church look like it's fragmented?
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.
Three Changing Trends in American Churches
The three trends I've recently noticed are not new. What is new is that a relatively few churches embraced these concepts a few years ago. Today, they are becoming normative. These three approaches have moved from the category of "exception" to the category of "mainstream."
Government-Run Churches
At what point will American Christians be forced to obey the government or their faith?
April 16, 2020: Churches sue Calif., DOJ defends churches, Bible reading up over 50%
Churches sue Calif. over order banning in-person religious services; Bible reading 54 percent higher over Holy week this year: YouVersion; DOJ intervenes after Miss. tickets churchgoers $500 each
| CP Staff
Survey: Financial Strain Worsens for More Churches
The economic recession delivered a hard blow to more churches this past year than at the start of the downturn, new research indicates. Findings from a new survey show that 38 percent of churches reported a decline in giving in 2009.
When Great Churches Fall
The names of the churches stare back at me. There are 876 churches. Most of them have their names written in my books. The names I am seeing right now are churches that are no longer great. They have fallen from the lists. They no longer meet the criteria.
The Rise of Millennial Churches
In recent years, some churches have been planted or have shifted their worship style to reflect the preferences of younger generations in hopes of reaching these religiously unaffiliated demographics.
