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Church Online: Bridge Versus Detour
"God never leads us to dead ends," says Pastor Whit George. When churches couldn't meet in physical buildings, God provided church online. Church On The Move has been doing online ministry for many years, but ramped up their efforts when COVID-19 hit and has truly seen the Church be the Church onli...
Leadership
The Phases of My Faith
When God wants to change my life, he changes my perspective. As He reframes the way I see the world around me, I start to think and act differently. When it comes to my faith, three phases stand out as particularly formative in the continuing journey of becoming who God has created me to be. Ph...
Giving & Finance
Giving & Stewardship Tips
Talking about finances in the church can be tricky. How can we as pastors cast vision about giving without sounding like we’re overly focused on money? In this video series, Life.Church Oklahoma City Pastor Chris Beall shares best practices for speaking with attenders about faithful giving, and how...
Staff Development
The Best Fit: How We Hire
Our thorough recruitment process is intentionally designed to help prevent the people we hire from later being fired. When employees not only work for your organization, but they also worship at your church, it's important to...
Leadership
Training Your Church
If you don’t train your church to know which boundaries are appropriate, you likely won’t have many. If you are the senior pastor, you can set the tone publicly. I’d suggest a few of the following: Publicly communicate when your day off is. Talk about how important that day is to your family....
Leadership
Micro Churches, Mega Vision
I love to challenge myself to think about things from a different perspective, especially things I’ve taken at face value. For years, when people referenced our church, Life.Church, as a megachurch, I never gave the term a second thought: I simply thought it meant a big church. Upon more reflection...
Creative
Photography Tutorial: Auditorium Photography
Auditoriums are some of the best places to show off how God is moving in your church—but they can be the most difficult to photograph. In this training, Life.Church Staff Photographer Robby Doland shows us how to work with tricky lighting situations and methods for successful auditorium photo editi...
Online Ministry
Church Online: Equipment Needs
Watch this YouTube Live video from the Life.Church Broadcast team and hear them share how you can get started doing ministry online. For more helpful resources, read about their equipment recommendations here . Here are a few timestamps that might be helpful: 2:28: The Why Behind Church Online...
Operations
Multi-Purpose, Multi-Benefit
Multi-purpose rooms can be one of the most valuable assets your church creates. At Life.Church, we keep our spaces efficient and our budget frugal by planning rooms that serve multiple purposes. When constructing new space, keep things as simple as possible. Try to only create rooms that can...
Operations
Creating a Welcoming Environment at Easter
Next to Christmas, Easter is likely the time of the year you’ll see the most new attenders in your church. And, when you’re new to church, walking into the doors of a church for the first time can be intimidating or down-right scary. As you think about this new wave of attenders, walk through your...
Leadership
3 Values that Lead to Evangelism
“How do I inspire my church to be involved in evangelism?” At Alpha , that’s the one question we most often hear from church leaders—and it’s an important one for a couple of reasons. First, if we mobilize our whole congregation to engage with their community, the message of Jesus will find its w...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 2
In last month’s episode , we talked about craving useful feedback and three factors that matter when you’re receiving it. This month, let’s talk about three factors that matter when you’re giving feedback . 1. When you give feedback. For some organizations, the most common time for fe...
Giving & Finance
Life.Church Core Giving and Generosity Beliefs
Core Beliefs The following are Core Beliefs around giving and generosity at Life.Church. However, we encourage you to prayerfully identify and define your own core beliefs that will govern conversations around generosity at your church. God owns it all, and He provides everything we need to...
Leadership
What the Church Should Learn from Google
Most of us would say Google is pretty big. Eighteen years after it launched its search engine, it is one of the top 10 most well-known brands in the world. But despite how big it’s become, Google’s leaders continue to think bigger. Instead of looking back at what they’ve accomplished, they look...
Leadership
When the Bicycle Threatened the Church
In 1896, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church condemned bicycling on Sunday for enticing parishioners away from church and violating the Fourth Commandment: The Sabbath, the Lord’s Day of rest for the body, and of worship for the soul, is especially threatened by many unscriptu...