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Is Your Church Afraid of Change?

Over the years that we’ve worked with churches, it’s been our observation that of the four critical elements of healthy, effective...

Change Management 101

Years ago we went through a very difficult season at our church. After a time of crazy growth, we had a number of people leave as a...

The Challenge of the Easy

Any form of movement requires energy. Energy, however, is hard to come by. As biological creatures, human beings will naturally seek to...

Change. Or End Up With A Subdivision.

My father-in-law was a remarkable man: a colonel in the Army in the same headquarters in England that General Eisenhower worked from...

Why Is Change So Dang Hard?

Sociologists have noted the unprecedented “acceleration of change” happening in our world.. Information is instantaneous. People change...

Spiritual Vitality...and Age

Years ago we identified 4 critical elements all healthy churches practiced, regardless of size or stripe: Integrity: systems, processes,...