April 11, 2010
Kent Fillinger highlights 2009 megachurch and emerging megachurch attendance averages, fastest-growing churches, new churches crossing key attendance thresholds, and state-by-state reporting trends.
April 11, 2010
Kent Fillinger reviews 2009 megachurch and emerging megachurch data, highlighting attendance growth, senior minister trends, worship venues, multisite ministry, finances, and staffing pressures.
April 11, 2010
Gene Appel’s early leadership at Eastside Christian Church helped spark renewed vision, compassion outreach, baptisms, and 39 percent worship attendance growth in 2009.
April 7, 2010
Mark A. Taylor reflects on megachurch growth statistics and encourages smaller churches to see opportunity, not inferiority, in their own growth and baptism potential.
March 24, 2010
Jerry Harris and Rodney Roberts discuss how The Crossing’s pastor and elders pursue unity, shared vision, prayer, and trust while leading a fast-growing multisite church.
March 14, 2010
Kelly Kastens reflects on why spiritual friendship matters, especially for Christian leaders who need trusted companions marked by honesty, vulnerability, prayer, and a shared desire to become more like Christ.
March 7, 2010
By Stephen Bond “I will build my church . . .” (Jesus Christ in Matthew 16:18) God intends church growth. We know this because there are still people who have not yet embraced God”s grace through faith in Christ. Those people face the specter of eternal separation from the Heavenly Father. Jesus came to seek and to save these lost people. This is not the only message Jesus brings, but it is one of the most important. At the age of 21, I opened the Bible for the first time and discovered a world of truth I had never known.
February 14, 2010
George Ross reflects on Brian and Amy’s baptism, their question about forgiveness, and a surprising moment when God used their story to encourage their marriage years later.
February 7, 2010
Dale Tinsley reflects on a difficult ministry season and how God restored a divided congregation through unity, authentic love, perseverance, and one simple invitation.
December 2, 2009
David Bycroft reflects on how Tyro Christian Church grew in a town of 250 through long-term leadership, volunteer ministry, rural outreach, and a steady focus on reaching the lost.
November 29, 2009
Doug Priest highlights key 4C missiologists whose missionary service, teaching, writing, and institutional leadership shaped the academic discipline of missiology and strengthened Christian mission worldwide.
September 20, 2009
Kent E. Fillinger examines how senior minister age and tenure affect church growth and urges leaders to face succession planning, delayed retirements, and crucial conversations with courage.
September 13, 2009
Kent E. Fillinger compares medium-sized churches with megachurches and emerging megachurches, highlighting growth, baptisms, multisite ministry, church planting, giving, debt, and outreach trends.
September 13, 2009
A collection of notable statistics from the 2008 Medium-Sized Church Report, including attendance comparisons, fastest-growing churches, baptism totals, Easter attendance, and senior minister age trends.
August 9, 2009
David A. Fiensy reflects on the difficult work of pastoral care, warning that neglecting the suffering harms the church’s witness, weakens preaching, and obscures the God of the cross.
Larry Travis and Tim Wallingford identify four leadership challenges facing small- and medium-size churches: unclear roles, conflict, lack of training, and the struggle to embrace biblical vision.
May 31, 2009
David Ray reviews Simple Church by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger, highlighting its call for clarity, movement, alignment, and focus in discipleship while warning that simple ministry is not easy ministry.
April 19, 2009
Kent Fillinger highlights survey findings from megachurches and emerging megachurches, urging leaders to pursue unique vision while learning from growth, recession, and baptism trends.
April 19, 2009
Kent E. Fillinger and Ben Simms report 2008 growth data from megachurches and emerging megachurches, including fastest-growing churches, attendance averages, baptisms, state totals, and overall growth trends.
April 15, 2009
Gene Appel discusses megachurches, multisite ministry, Willow Creek’s Reveal study, discipleship, and why churches of every size should pursue the Acts 2 model.
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