From the new book Intentional Churches ... Now, if you have one or two moments that you hope to create each week, what if your whole team were on board? What if the greeters were aware of the exact moment you were going to push for a response? They would be primed to keep distractions to a minimum. What if your children’s ministries knew what was happening in the worship center? They would be ready to answer … [Read more...]
Minister’s Housing Allowance Determination
A Process To Help Churches Help Their Staffs To Determine And Gain Approval For Their Housing Allowance Designations Each Year
One of the questions I get most often at this time of the year is on the topic of the Minister’s Housing Allowance. Not what it is or anything, but rather how to implement a process for helping a minister determine it and how to facilitate the “board approval” required by the IRS tax code. The issue is how to have the board do the approval and show that approval on a document somewhere for each minister. This is … [Read more...]
Strategic Planning
A Step By Step Outline Of A Pretty Good Strategic Planning Process
Developing a “plan and execute” culture in the local church is critical to success! Here’s a “step by step” description of the process of developing a strategic plan. This can be done in a fairly short time and without much difficulty and cost. Check this out and give it a try! Flowchart Stakeholder Needs Using numerous data sources (internal opinion surveys, external demographic studies, performance metrics, … [Read more...]
Loving Intentional Churches!
Even More Excited About Intentional Churches' New Book Now That I'm Reading It!
Check out the first few paragraphs from Intentional Churches new book: The local church is a miracle. It’s a divine strategy that in human terms simply doesn’t make sense. Why would the almighty God of the universe bring his Son to earth and then leave it up to us to make sure everyone hears the good news of Christ? Was this his chosen strategy? Really? He put the greatest message to be told in our feeble hands, … [Read more...]
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