Today I want to start a bit of a series to help make church leaders aware of the online cults out there vying for the attention of your members, particularly the younger ones. This first one we’ll look at is “The Manosphere.” What is the manosphere?...
Today we are going to look at how to use Microsoft Forms in you church, but first, a bit of a rant… There’s something that churches do all the time that makes me cringe… okay, there’s lots of things that churches do all the time that make me...
Today we are going to look at why in-person welcoming is so important to your online ministry pathway and ways to incorporate technology into it, but first, the story of how one extraordinary welcome paved the way for my career in ministry… There was a time...
AI has been all the rage since tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have further democratized utilizing AI in everyday workflows. Microsoft has been heavily funding AI research and is the biggest contributor to OpenAI, the company which puts out ChatGPT, GPT-3/4,...
Easter is almost upon us, which means the “twice a year” Christians will soon be descending upon your church once more. So what do we need to get ready now before the crash of people come down upon us? I see a lot of churches not take full advantage of the...
Okay, so here’s a hot take: having a livestream of the service does not mean your church has a “hybrid” service. What is it about a livestream at the average church would differentiate it from a broadcast on TV, recordings on the website, or the CD...
“Your sermon was ‘sobering’ and by that I mean it was sooooo booooooring.” It wasn’t the nicest thing I’d ever heard a congregant say, but it was by far one of the funniest. While that one wasn’t directed at me, I’m sure...
Does this sound like your church’s small groups? You find a group of people who live near you, sit in someone’s living room, and try not to fall asleep during a rehashing of the sermon on Sunday followed by every couple talking about their kids’...
Few people really ever question the concept of church “membership” these days. It’s just become kind of a staple of the Western church that we all accept. Despite that, Life.Church ended membership. I must confess, I hadn’t even considered...
I encounter pastors all the time that are struggling with recruiting and retaining volunteers. Well, there are a few reasons why churches are struggling to get volunteers more today than they have in the past: the Boomers were the church core for a really long time...
