Pastor Adam Hamilton shares his strategy for connecting visitors and new people to his church: What do you think? HT: ...

“Cleveland needs people who love Jesus,” said Dan Ghramm, a North American Mission Board church planter in West Cleveland. Among the 65,000 people in the area where he works, Ghramm says there are “less than 300 to 400 people in a Gospel-preaching church on Sunday...

If your church is at all interested in getting outside your building and looking for new ideas to reach people far from God, then take a look at these 29 top Externally Focused ideas from 2011.  After looking at a ton of different ideas, the Externally Focused Network narrowed it down to...

Membership in an active church can present some incredible opportunities to travel outside the United States to faraway lands where your volunteer efforts can have a great impact upon the lives of local people. Many US churches do conduct active periodic mission trips to Third World nations in...

The Acts 29 Network is bringing micro-churches to Fort Worth neighborhoods, and pastors hope their congregation will make people like church more. “It’s really a grass roots effort,” said the pastor of The Rooted, Nick Ostermann. The City Church, The Rooted and The Paradox are all Acts...

OK… Just wondering… Great idea or horrible idea? I have friends in leadership at NorthRidge.  Personally, I like it.  Knowing the folks there means that they will do a great day of proclaiming Christ.  I think it will be a big WIN for them. What do you think?  Many...

Imagine having an outreach so big that 12,000 people show up and children are knocked over or trampled. That’s what evidently happened last year when Next Level Church did their Easter Egg Drop.  That has prompted this years drop to be held at a ‘secret location’.  See...

My friend Greg Atkinson recently wrote an article highlighting 8 reasons people aren’t coming back to your church.  Here are the reasons.  Go read his thoughts, then come back and let’s discuss… The Front Door Before a guest ever steps foot on your church’s...

Two Rivers Baptist Church, a prominent Southern Baptist congregation in Nashville, is changing its name beginning March 20 to the “Fellowship at Two Rivers.” The church says the name change was driven by a desire to distance itself from controversies from the past few years that...

“Simply having a small group program in a church is no guarantee of success,” according to Kevin Dougherty, an assistant professor in Baylor’s department of sociology… what matters is that the groups meet regularly; that members trust one another enough to divulge...

Have you heard of Servolution?  If not… check this out from my friend Dino Rizzo and the folks at Healing Place Church: Servolution.org: Welcome from Healing Place Church on Vimeo. A Servolution is not an event; it is a culture. Infusing this culture into the DNA of your church will...

Gabe Lyons and Tim Keller had a very interesting webcast last week. The topic: Living in a “post-Christian” world. Here are some quotes captured by The Christian Post: Tim Keller: “My understanding of how you reach a culture is Christians have to be extremely like the...

Want to get the first-hand look inside story of a church that started with just a handful of people and has surged to over 120,000 followers of Jesus gathering in 950 churches in India?  Rob and Michelle Wegner have an experience that they share in a new book called “Share the...

Is your church ‘inwardly focused’?  Are you focusing on the fish already in the aquarium?  Brian Kaufman suggests that inwardly focused churches all practice at least five of these things.  See what you think: An Inwardly-Focused Church Makes Converts Not Disciples An...

Steven Furtick says he is asked quite often how Elevation Church has been able to see so many people come to Christ in just five years.  Here’s his answer: Outside of the favor of God, I could give you a lot of specifics. Tell you a lot of things that we’ve done. But none of it...