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We Have a Plan
Steve Reeves outlines a three-part pastoral succession plan covering emergency leadership, the transition process, and the church's health three years afterward, offering practical questions for pastors and elders…
First Look Inward (Part 2: The Place)
Jason Yeatts identifies three risks to church succession teamwork and explains how humility, shared ministry strategies, and common goals helped Indian Creek Christian Church prepare for a pastoral…
First Look Inward (Part 1: The Person)
Gary Johnson explores three risks in pastoral succession: staying too long, failing to plan, and refusing to release authority. Discover why humility matters for healthy church leadership transitions.
Everybody Leaves Sooner or Later
In this interview with Kent Fillinger, Warren Bird shares insights from Next on pastoral succession, preparing spouses, developing future leaders, strengthening search committees, and planning healthy church leadership…
6 Pointers for Leaders Getting Ready to Retire
LeRoy Lawson shares seven lessons from ministry retirement and leadership transitions, offering practical counsel for outgoing pastors, their successors, and church search committees preparing for a healthy handoff.
Statistical Snippets from Our Survey
Explore Kent Fillinger's 2015 church statistics covering attendance, growth rates, baptisms, giving, debt, and congregational health across megachurches, emerging megachurches, large churches, and medium churches.
Megachurches and More: The 2015 Charts
Explore Christian Standard's 2015 church attendance listings, featuring 58 megachurches, 74 emerging megachurches, and additional large and medium congregations. Download the complete chart or individual attendance-category PDFs.
Hopes, Fears, & Priorities (2015 Megachurch & Statistics Report)
What did megachurches hope for and fear in 2015? Kent Fillinger examines survey findings on church planting, discipleship, finances, multisite expansion, slowing attendance growth, and leadership succession.
Lifting Up Jesus
Explore the history of Christian Standard's editors, from Isaac Errett in 1866 through Mark Alan Taylor, and discover how their leadership shaped the publication and the Restoration Movement.
Opening Doors
Six Christian leaders discuss how the Restoration Movement can preserve its identity while building partnerships across denominational lines, strengthening relationships, and pursuing shared mission without abandoning core convictions.
Lloyd Pelfrey and the Future of the Restoration Movement
Lloyd Pelfrey reflects on decades of Restoration Movement history, the influence of music and evangelicalism, the pursuit of Christian unity, and why evangelism remains essential to the movement's…
WHAT’S NEXT?: Look and Act Like Jesus
Jeff Metzger identifies five priorities for churches seeking to become more like Jesus: reaching the nations, glorifying God, loving people, teaching Scripture, and extending mercy in a changing…
WHAT’S NEXT?: Teach and Reach
James Book outlines three priorities for future church ministry: using digital technology effectively, strengthening biblical preaching and everyday discipleship, and reaching communities across cultural and language differences.
WHAT’S NEXT?: Filled with Mercy
Rachel Grindle challenges churches to extend mercy even to their enemies. Drawing on Jonah and James 2, she asks Christians to choose compassion over judgment and become communities…
WHAT’S NEXT?: Every Nation, Tribe, People, and Language
Cam Huxford shares how prayer, intentional hospitality, and a vision inspired by Revelation 7:9 helped his Savannah congregation welcome greater ethnic diversity and prepare for a multicultural future.
