Today’s guest post by Aviva Patz for Health.com offers practical answers to the question: How can we live longer and healthier? The answer is more complicated than counting the number of candles you blew out on your last birthday cake. Your daily habits can either add or subtract years from your life—like how much you exercise, or how stressed you allow yourself … Read More
Understand the Customer – A Saturday Quote
“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well that the product or service fits him and sells itself.”– Peter Drucker
THE KEY to Church Growth
Today’s guest post comes to us from author, seminar speaker and the world’s premier bible lesson writer, Josh Hunt. Here he examines the assumption that there is a “key” to church growth. Jim Collins has a helpful metaphor on why this assumption is wrong. He calls it the flywheel principle. Imagine a huge flywheel. It weighs 5000 pounds. It is 2 feet … Read More
Jump Start Your Evangelism Through Effective Marketing – NEW Event!
If you’ve posted a welcome sign, created a church bulletin or sent any kind of email – you have engaged in marketing. But as you’ve probably guessed, effective marketing is so much more. Once understood and applied, marketing can mean the difference between filling your church to share the Gospel – and speaking to a half-empty room. As the media space … Read More
Last Chance – HALF OFF Why People Leave Your Church
I’ve got a question for you. One you’ve probably asked yourself a few times since Sunday: Who was missing from your Sunday services this past Labor Day Weekend? Every week we see people attend our services but then miss a Sunday and then before you know it you’re asking yourself “Where have they been?” It’s an issue that weighs heavily on … Read More
6 Reasons Why People Leave Your Church (Half Off Labor Day Sale)
This Sunday you will probably face an issue that weighs heavily on all us as pastors – empty chairs and the frustration of seeing people who were there last week not return this week. It hurts to even talk about someone leaving the church we lead. When it happens, we don’t know what to do and what to not do. … Read More
8 Warning Signs Your Marketing May Be Missing Something
If you believe in the power of evangelism, then you believe in the power of effective marketing! After 25 years of pastoring and coaching, I’ve learned that marketing and ministry DO go together – and it’s an essential part of fulfilling your mission. But if you’re not sure if your marketing is good or bad, here are 8 warning signs that your church marketing … Read More
Call Out Your Congregation – Let’s Do a Tithe Challenge
By now someone in your church has been called out to take the Ice Bucket Challenge. But what if you could challenge your congregation spiritually? While it doesn’t involve dumping icy cold water on people, it does require your church to get out of their comfort zone and further impact the Kingdom. Challenge your people to tithe – just for 90 days … Read More
Join me in Nashville for first RPU – Super Early Bird Ends Friday!
I want to invite you to come back to seminary with me . . . not for three years, but just for three days. Join me in Nashville next month for a BRAND NEW unique training event – the first-ever Renegade Pastors U. This is your opportunity to hear from the foremost experts in church growth, church leadership and church health, all … Read More
FREE Connect Book Summary Today – Double Your Volunteers
This week, I want to give you a FREE 15-Page Executive Summary of my book “Connect: How to Double Your Number of Volunteers.” Here’s why – when I first began pastoring, I had a “do-it-myself’ attitude. I was too timid to ask people to volunteer. But as the church began to grow, I realized I wouldn’t be able to keep … Read More