Need High Trust to be an Innovative Church
Do you want an innovative church? The key is having a church culture built around a high sense of trust. In the field of innovation, trust is considered a core…
Are Church Metrics Unspiritual?
Church growth is a sensitive and emotionally charged subject to discuss. For some church leaders, it is an exciting conversation about what God is doing, the stories of people discovering…
Humility as a Competitive Advantage
Pride and arrogance are the prerequisites to being a leader. At least, that is what some think. In fact, they believe this so much they disqualify themselves from leadership because…
Be Creative as You Were Made To
Albert Einstein is quoted saying, “the true sign of imagination is not knowledge, but imagination (Pardekooper, 2016). C.S. Lewis wrote ”imagination is the organ of meaning…producing new metaphors or revivifying…
Develop Leaders In Order to Grow
Has your church plateaued? People come to services, but don’t stay. Your staff seem overwhelmed, tired, and don’t carry your vision how you would like them to. The problem may…
Generational Fragmentation of the Church
Across the United States churches are navigating their way through generational fragmentation. As the Traditional Generation (1945 or before) and the Baby Boomer Generation (1946-1964) remain viable, active, and in…
Relational Consultants are the Future
For consultants, the key factor for success in the changing future is to ability to build relationships that last through the challenges and changes the future holds. (Christensen et al.,…
Value Consulting
In the world of specializing and niche markets, consultants are finding a wide open landscape of opportunity. Though there is a great deal of money to be made for some…
Christians as Consultants
Being a consultant must be a value driven profession. In the 90’s and 200’s consultancy moved quickly with freedom and opportunity, but now there is a shift in the way…
Aren’t Metrics Worldy?
Within a ministry context, there is a high degree of opposition to the use of metrics. Negative attitudes and motivations often tied to measuring outcomes disqualify analytics from being used…