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Church Now | Church Next: Five Reasons I’m More Optimistic Than Ever
Some estimate that 50% of church attenders aren’t returning to church buildings. Leaders and their teams are struggling to find steady ground in a world where the future is shifting minute by minute. Join Craig as he challenges church leaders to remain optimistic and full of faith that the church i...
Church Planting
Creating a Culture of Invitation
Kristi Northup, executive pastor at Saints Community Church in New Orleans, shares how to create a culture of invitation in your church. If you feel like you’ve tried everything to reach people, but haven’t seen much return, learn what Kristi and her husband identified: you have to emphasize person...
Online Ministry
Digital Watch Party Kit
Digital Watch Party Overview If planning Christmas online is new to your church, you may be encouraging your attenders to join you for an online experience in their home. Watch Parties can provide a sense of community around online content and help attenders feel connected in and to your chu...
Operations
How We're Processing Hybrid Church
As the pandemic continues to impact ministry around the world, pastors everywhere are innovating and improvising. In 2020, thousands of churches started conducting church online to keep their people connected in biblical community. Now, many church leaders are wondering how spreading the gospel wil...
Leadership
The Other Side
Romans 8:28 offers the amazing promise of God bringing good out of all situations for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. I’ve watched God bring good on the other side of many difficult times. Today, I’ll talk about the other side of financial trials . One mon...
Leadership
Pastors, Anxiety, and Burnout
From the outside, we as pastors and church leaders probably seem like we have it all together. God’s calling is on our lives, and we’re doing the most important work in the world. How could we be stressed out? After all, we only work on Sundays, right? Wrong. Working in ministry is tough. In fact...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Investing Your Resources the Right Way, Part 1
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In this episode, let’s talk about an important skill that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves: resource allocation. Resource allocation is investing your available resources in the present to accomplish your goals and objec...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Investing Your Resources the Right Way, Part 2
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In this episode, let’s talk about four common allocation mistakes leaders often make, and how we can avoid those mistakes to invest our resources the right way. 1. Static resource allocation. One way people describe insanity is “do...
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
Leadership Podcast: It's About Time, Part 1
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! Everyone wins when a leader gets better. In this podcast, Craig discusses time—your most valuable, non-replenishing resource. You can always make more money, but you cannot make more time. You must learn to manage your time wisely....
Giving & Finance
Leading New Believers Through Tithing
At Life.Church, we like to say we will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ. That might include things like using movies or popular TV commercials in church to illustrate truths from the Bible. As a result of being really focused about reaching the lost, we often have a lot o...
Leadership
All About Honor
In a series we did called Forgotten Virtues , the first message I taught was on honor. If you're interested, you can  download the messages here . When Jesus said, "a prophet is without honor in his hometown," the Greek word he used was “atimos” (pronounced at’-ee’-mos). It means...
Leadership
5 Ways the Best Leaders Think Master Class
5 WAYS THE BEST LEADERS THINK: MASTER CLASS WORKBOOK YOU’RE A PASTOR. YOUR MIND MATTERS. Find the five master class teaching videos from Craig Groeschel on YouTube . To walk through this workbook with your team, download the PDF ....
Missions
How Can My Church Advocate for Justice Reform?
Are you interested in getting your church involved in justice reform but don't know how? Want to learn more about what your church can do? Watch Prison Fellowship’s webinar: How Can My Church Advocate for Justice Reform?...