What Mark Zuckerberg Knows About Making Disciples
Looking for new ways to reach your church audience? We have your answer: it is fast, easily accessible and seriously underutilized for making disciples.
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Church Promotions Triage: A Smarter Way to Decide What Gets Communicated and How
When there is so much to do, we often don’t know where to start. Establishing these four simple rules will lead your team to effective church communication.
2 Simple, Effective Ways to Connect More People with Your Church’s Message
Want to expand your message’s reach? Here are two simple streaming tools few churches are leveraging to their maximum potential.
2 Documents You Need for an Effective Communications Strategy
My good friend Kem Meyer recently shared the only two documents you need for your communications strategy. Whether your team has written tons of communications strategies or you have yet to write your first one, Kem shares the wisdom of committing to simplicity.
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Why Communication May Not Be Your REAL Problem
Most organizational communication problems are really something else. Still, when churches sense their message isn’t getting through, they often dive headfirst into changing the technology or the graphics, trying more announcements, redesigning the site, etc. Perhaps you lead at one of those churches. The problem is they are often trying to solve the wrong challenge…
The Leadership Unstuck Podcast: Is Your Church Too Complex?
In this episode of The Leadership Unstuck Podcast, I talk to Joe Dobbins, Lead Pastor of Twin Rivers Worship Center in St. Louis, Missouri about reducing complexity within churches. Churches often get stuck because they are trying to do too much. That’s why it’s crucial to identify and stop programs that are not working. You’ll hear Joe’s story, and Ryan and I talk through a framework for reducing complexity in your own church.
Toxic Church Mantras and Self-Serving Celebrations
Is the language of the culture within your church toxic to people living in the culture outside it? What I’m not talking about is the “church people” we see in news clips holding venomous posters on the side of the road. That’s clearly toxic. What I am talking about is more subtle: church t-shirts that sell an exclusive membership. Or, rally cries intended to foster community within one church that instead suggest competition between churches. Or, insider language decorating an Instagram post without regard for how it may be interpreted in a public context. We say things outside our church walls that take on new meaning. We all need to get better at evaluating our language.
4 Ways to Avoid Being Brand Identical
When it’s time to design your new student center, update the website, or refresh the…
How To Handle Negative Comments Online
A little while ago, we received an email from a senior pastor asking us to…
Speak Like a Human?
Like most everyone else, I find myself skimming when I’m reading on the Internet. So,…
Use This 10 Item Checklist to Make Social Media Work for Your Church in 2016
Is social media accomplishing anything for your church? I find most churches have a Facebook…
4 Predictions For Online Church In 2016 And Beyond
We’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of online church this year. We started this two-part series…