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How can you faithfully grow your church?
Some weeks, leading a church feels like you’re running in quicksand. You’re doing all the right things but no new people are coming to know Jesus through your efforts. Adding church members can feel impossible, especially when each ministry’s needs seem to fall directly on your shoulders.
Some weeks, leading a church feels like you’re running in quicksand. You’re doing all the right things but no new people are coming to know Jesus through your efforts. Adding church members can feel impossible, especially when each ministry’s needs seem to fall directly on your shoulders.
Getting your church above 75, 125, or even 200 people doesn’t need to feel like an impossible task. There is hope for faithful and robust church growth.
Why this course?
Ed will empower you with a plan of action to overcome attendance barriers. Figure out what’s preventing your church from growing and learn strategies to move your church in a more dynamic direction.
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Identify and Break Barriers to Growth
Growing your church starts with identifying obstacles standing in your way. Ed will walk through what may be blocking your church from thriving and how to change course to accommodate growth.
Build Systems to Encourage Growth
Your role as a church leader will change as your church grows. Learn how to adapt yourself and your church to the changing dynamics of church growth by building systems to encourage participation in your church’s mission.
At the end of this course, you will...
Identify the major barriers preventing your church from growing.
Create leadership development structures that empower your congregation to do the work of ministry with you.
Acquire a vision and strategy to build an effective small group ministry.
Included in this course:
Six 20-minute teaching videos
from Ed Stetzer.
Discussion questions
to guide team conversation or reflect on your own.
22 practical exercises
to apply the principles in your church.
Additional resources
to help you keep learning between sessions.
Identify the internal factors affecting church growth—spiritual and personal barriers. Leading people through change requires you to consider what you’re saying and how you’re living.
Discover people’s major aversions to change in your church and the key shifts you need to make to lovingly bring them along on your path toward growth.
Confront common barriers concerning the vision (where your church is going) and the mission (why your church is going there) of your church.
Help people connect with your church by sharing ministry responsibilities with volunteers and leaders to sustain growth.
Learn the importance of small group ministry as the aim of any church pipeline.
Develop a small group ministry that faithfully shepherds people through growth.
Ed Stetzer
Dr. Ed Stetzer is a teaching pastor and scholar in residence at Mariners Church in Southern California. He has planted, revitalized, and pastored churches; trained pastors and church planters on six continents; and has authored, co-authored, or edited over fifteen books, including Planting Missional Churches, Comeback Churches, Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches That Reach Them, and Transformational Groups, co-authored with Eric Geiger. Ed also serves as the general editor for RightNow Pastors+.
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You can use this course on your own or with other leaders at your church. The written curriculum is geared toward group discussion, but it can also be used individually.
In this six-session course, author and pastor Ed Stetzer shares his pastoral experience and research to help you create healthy church growth.
Yes. This course is only available with a RightNow Pastors+ subscription as part of a RightNow Media account. Click here for more information.
Plan for an hour to an hour and a half to go through each session, especially if you’re going through the content in a group. The videos in this course range from 5 to 15 minutes, and the discussion questions and activities will likely take up the rest of your meeting time.
This course is six sessions long. Feel free to cover the sessions in increments that make the most sense for you and your leadership team. For some, it might work best to go through one session a week; for others, it might be better to cover one session a month. We do not recommend doubling up on sessions.
In its 40-year history, Barna Group has conducted more than two million interviews over the course of thousands of studies and has become a go-to source for insights about faith and culture, leadership and vocation, and generations. Barna Group has worked with thousands of businesses, nonprofit organizations and churches across the U.S. and around the world.
Barna is an independent, privately held, nonpartisan organization based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Nashville, Tennessee; Ventura, California; and Atlanta, Georgia.
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