Articles + Podcast
Getting Your Facility Guest-Ready | The Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 11
Having a first-rate experience for newcomers should never be about becoming the coolest church in your town. It should always be about evangelism. This article gives you practical tips for improving your guest experience.
Assessing Your Digital Presence | The Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 10
Your website is the 21st-century front door of your church. Here are 8 elements to consider when evaluating your website through the eyes of a guest.
Developing a Rhythm of Outreach | Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 9
In this week’s Church Revitalization Podcast, we interviewed Jason Daye from Outreach, Inc. Jason shares how valuable it is to leverage the seasons of the year to ensure that our congregations are making a consistent impact in the community.
How to Eliminate Unhealthy Values from Your Church
Here’s a three-step process your church can follow to eliminate unhealthy values from your church culture.
The Role of Core Values
What we often see is a disconnect between what the church said it values and what the church actually values.
Tips for Crafting a Mission Statement | The Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 6
Your church will never be able to be fully healthy if you do not operate out of a clearly defined mission. Aubrey Malphurs puts it this way: "You'll never do ministry that matters until you clearly articulate what matters." That's the heart of mission: understanding...
The Role of Mission in Revitalization | Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 5
Everything starts and ends with mission. We must re-frame the conversation about mission and explore the role that mission can play in helping your church. Here’s a hint, it’s a vital role.
Assessing Your Church’s Health | Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 4
Guiding a church from being unhealthy to being healthy is never about giving them “tips and tricks” and taking on lots of new strategies; it’s about discovering the small number of actual solutions to their unique challenges and dysfunctions. This is why it’s important to assess your church’s health.
Empowering Your Revitalization Team | Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 3
You’ve decided you're ready to engage in a revitalization process in your church either on your own or with an experienced, outside guide. You’ve decided on who will be a part of the team to go through the process. Ready to start? No! Don’t...
Building Your Revitalization Team | Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 2
When The Malphurs Group works with a church in our Strategic Envisioning process, we guide the church through a revitalization team selection process. We want to share what we’ve learned through our years of working with churches through this process. Here are three principles for selecting members of your Revitalization Team.
Is Our Church Ready for Revitalization? | Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 1
Congregations must “count the cost,” and assess its readiness to change (especially if there is question) before beginning a church revitalization process.
6 Characteristics of Revitalizing Pastors
Not everyone has the "right stuff." We often tell our children that they can be anything they want to be, but this isn't entirely true. It's a nice sentiment, but it's just false. At this point in life, my chances of being a professional football player are nil. Why?...
Stop Blaming Other Churches
Declining churches often feel that they would be growing, if it weren’t for that one church down the road, but it’s time to stop blaming other churches and seeing them as competition.
How to Thrive in a Post-Christian World
The world is full of darkness. The endless news of violence, tragedy, and pain is enough to make a person never want to leave their house. We know that the world has been dark since the fall of mankind, but the darkness in our age feels even darker and more oppressive. Here are six practical things your church can do to thrive in a post-Christian world.
13 Deadly Sins of a Dying Church
Out of our work and research from speaking with hundreds of churches over the last twenty years, we developed this list of “13 Deadly Sins of a Dying Church.” Our goal isn’t to critique or put down pastors and other Christian leaders but to motivate you to action.
How to Build a Discipleship Pathway
Churches are great at filling the calendar. Most churches have no shortage of programs, events, and fellowships. Yet most churches somehow struggle to do the one thing Jesus commissioned us to do: make disciples.
When your church focuses on filling the calendar with programs over creating a streamlined Discipleship Pathway, the people in your church will never be held accountable to grow.
Here are three steps to building a discipleship pathway.
How Core Values Impact Decision Making
The actual values of your church determine most of the decisions you make. The problem is that what you actually value may not line-up with the statements on your website or bulletin.
5 Characteristics of a Healthy Church
Everyone wants to be healthy. At least we think we do. Then we learn what being a healthy church requires. These common characteristics of a healthy church could be applied to almost any ministry or organization. 1) They are led well. Pastors committed to...
Leveraging the Summer Slump
There are a lot of well-meaning people who will try and tell you that your church can grow through the summer. Maybe your church shouldn’t try to go hard and grow through the summer (at least in terms of attendance). But maybe, instead of trying to avoid it, your church could leverage the summer slump.
Walking Through “Preparing Your Church for Revitalization”
We are all skeptical of "free" because nothing in life is free. We get it. We're skeptical, too. But our new course, "Preparing Your Church for Revitalization" really is 100% free with no strings attached. Another objection: it might be free, but it's all a sales...
Three Tips for Better Assimilation
We've all been there. A guest comes. A guest leaves. A guest never comes back. We scratch our heads and wonder, "What happened? Was it something I said?" Truthfully, most leaders don't know where the breakdown happens or why. The failure likely wasn't in the service...
Dealing with People Who Resist Change
The Church Revitalization Podcast - Episode 165 Change isn't easy. Anyone who thinks that their church can turnaround at the snap of a finger has never tried to lead a congregational meeting! However, since 95% of churches are in decline, plateaued, or only growing...
TMG Live – January 15, 2019
TOPIC: In today's edition of TMG Live, we are sharing three reasons to be excited about your church in 2019. WHAT WE WANT YOU TO TAKE AWAY: Our main goal is to inspire and encourage you today. We desire for pastors and church leaders like you to feel like 2019 can be...
Breaking the Solo Pastor Barrier
Being a Solo Pastor is difficult work. I can relate. For over 20 years I worked as a small-business computer consultant. In the beginning I was just happy to have work but expected that I would grow into a larger business with employees. My business would ebb and...