How You Can Help Your Community Trust Your Church Again

POINT OF THE POST… 

This post is focused on how people outside your church see your church and, more importantly, what you can do about it.

Here’s a quick glimpse. Check out the entire post for some solutions:

I subscribe to several research organizations like Gallup and Barna. Last week, Gallup sent an email with their year-end highlights that felt much more like lowlights. The article was titled “Highs and Lows of 2022, U.S. Edition.”

It was a synopsis of the “most momentous shifts in public opinion in the U.S. this year.”

Here are a few “highlights:”

1. Belief in God in U.S. Dips to 81%, a New Low
2. Americans Less Optimistic About Next Generation’s Future
3. Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows
4. Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low

Yikes.

These data points should terrify and encourage you if you’re a pastor or ministry leader. The terror is easier to see. We’ll get to the encouragement in the post. 

FYI: I’m working with many churches to resolve the cultural issues around reaching our community and growing our church body. I have a course I’m releasing soon, but I’m giving you access to the FIRST COURSE MODULE FOR FREE: https://churchacceleratorcommunity.com/product/free-module-remodeling-your-church-model/

Thanks, Gavin

Have You Ever Considered Why You Do Church the Way You Do Church?

How was church yesterday?

Let me ask you another question: Have you ever considered why you do church the way you do church?

Every church has a model, method, or strategy. Perhaps many haven’t defined or documented it, but a lack of documentation doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Every organization has a method to the madness — even if it’s mostly madness. We all work from established frameworks and systems to meet our goals.

I can’t state this enough: Even if you don’t know your model, you have a model.

Your model is your how. Your mission and vision describe the what and why. It’s your model that prescribes how you hope to accomplish your mission and vision.

In this NEW POST, we’ll discuss ministry models and what questions you should ask to as you evaluate your current execution.

P.S.;

Check out more resources on Strategic Planning: https://churchacceleratorcommunity.com/strategic-planning/

Or you may want to look through the Irresistible Church Model content here: https://churchacceleratorcommunity.com/church-discipleship-model/

It’s Time for a New, Comprehensive Ministry Model

I’m launching a new Ministry Model cohort group. Here’s why:

It seems every church knows that they NEED a new ministry strategy, but nobody knows what it should look like.

Of course, it should integrate digital and physical components, but converting an outdated ministry model into a hybrid model only nets you an outdated hybrid model.

What your community needs today is different than what it needed a decade ago. The reason is that your community has evolved significantly over the last ten to twenty years.

Christianity is no longer cultural. We need a model that understands this reality.

Enter the Comprehensive Church Model.

Church problems are societal and generational, not viral. It’s time we addressed it comprehensively.

Let me give you two options:
1. Read this NEW POST and consider joining my new cohort. Just reply to this email to learn more.
2. If you know you need a new model, go ahead and reply to this email now. I’ll send you the course details.

Space in the course is limited. I want this to be personal and conversational. If the course if full, I’m happy to place you on the waitlist for the next group.

7 Questions to Determine If Your Ministry Model Needs to Change

Have you ever experienced a “solution looking for a problem?” I love that phrase. It most commonly looks like a product developed by a company for a customer that doesn’t exist. Not in the Steve Jobs or Apple way. In the legitimate “we spent time and resources creating something that nobody will ever want or […]