by Scott Ball | Church Growth, Church Health, Church Revitalization, Community Outreach, Strategic Planning
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...
by Scott Ball | Church Growth, Church Health, Church Revitalization, Culture, TMG Live, Turnaround Pastors
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 via transfer growth, change in the church is...
by Scott Ball | Church Consulting, Church Growth, Church Revitalization, Evaluations, Leadership, Strategic Planning
Your church will never go where you are not intentionally leading it. If you want to lose twenty pounds, but never go on a diet or exercise, it will not happen. If you want to retire with a nest egg, but never save and invest, it will not happen. Churches often say...
by Scott Ball | Church Health, Communication, Developing Leaders, Leadership, Staff Development
A church’s most valuable asset is its leadership; so you must be careful not to burn out your team. In our collective decades of ministry and consulting experience, we have seen again and again how churches that lack healthy leadership eventually struggle. To be...
by Scott Ball | Christian Life, Communication, Leadership, Theology, Vision
Those of us who are regularly teaching and/or preaching in our churches do so to encourage life change on the part of the people who sit under our ministries. And as we are preaching or teaching life changing principles from God’s word, our desire is that these...
