Category: Strategic Planning

Change The Values – Change The Church

I still believe in the importance of having good, simple, understandable, non-obtrusive, biblical, church structures. Top notch constitutions, by-laws, covenants, ministry descriptions, guiding principles, can’t, by themselves, produce healthy churches. Bad ones, however, can make healthy churches almost impossible. But structure doesn’t count for much compared to the values in the hearts and minds of…

Sample Secret Seeker Form

  Sample Secret Seeker Form   Date visited _______________                                     Name of church__________________________________________   Preacher/speaker_______________________    1. Was the secret seeker an individual, couple, family?  (Please describe)    2. If you had any experience with learning about the location/service times etc. from a phonebook, web site, sign, newspaper ad or other means, tell us about it:…

Traditions or Trends: Which Should We Follow?

 Most of the readers of this blog know about the dangers of traditionalism.  Yale University professor Jaraslov Jan Pelikan has been credited with saying that “Tradition is the living faith of those now departed.  Traditionalism is the dead faith of those now living” [emphasis mine].  A “dead faith,” I’m sure Pelikan meant, because the traditionalist…