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Leadership
Improve Communication with Stage Time Drills
At Life.Church, we don’t give “announcements.” We lead people to action. Because of this philosophy, leaders at our campuses set aside time weekly to practice how they’re going to interact with attenders from the stage. We call this Stage Time Drills. A Stage Time Drill begins with a speaker doing...
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...
Giving & Finance
Tips for Year-End Giving
It’s part of the natural rhythm of the year: giving tends to increase during the Christmas season. At Life.Church, we don’t take this for granted. We’re intentional about being humble and being good stewards of our resources, and that includes how we approach our tithing and giving communication at...
Leadership
Lazy People Don’t Need Vision to Be Lazy
Churches who decide to go multi-site often do so by adding campuses in nearby cities. Sometimes, churches will promote these new locations to their attenders as a convenience: “Now you can get to church in half the time!” Those same churches are somewhat surprised when the evangelism temperature...
Small Groups
Leading the Way with Small Groups
“Church” is much more than a weekly experience. Being the "capital “C” Church includes serving, giving, and engaging with God and others. A healthy, thriving, small group ministry is a necessary component to Christian community, but can be difficult to build effectively. At Life.Church, we e...
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...
Service & Events
Life.Church's Open Door Event
Open Door is an event held at each campus that gives campus staff and attendees a chance to get to know one another. Typically held over dinner, Open Door provides the space for staff and attenders to connect on a personal level, ask questions about Life.Church, and hear the history and vision for...
Leadership
Four Tips for Following Through on Goals
At Life.Church, we’re not just big on goals. We’re big on accomplishing goals. Here are a few tips to not only help you get started but to help you follow through: Review throughout the year. Consistently tracking your progress goes a long way toward keeping your goal off the backbur...
Kids
Design Philosophy in Kids Ministry
Our design philosophy for our children's classrooms is simple: keep it simple. We want parents to feel good about leaving their children with us for an hour, and that means rooms that are...
Leadership
Leading Your Church Out of Crisis
Pastors, if the way you're leading your church today is similar to your pre-pandemic plan, you probably have a bad plan. Your church has been through two years of extreme trauma. We’ve had countless tragic deaths, political division, ongoing racial tension, economic inconsistencies,...
Leadership
Breaking Up the Systems
Even a good ministry system will eventually limit what God wants to do if the system doesn’t evolve or totally change. (By system, I mean any program, structure, philosophy, or culture that shapes and helps produce a desired outcome.) Once people operate within a system long enough, they o...
Small Groups
Solving Small Group Challenges
There are a few common problems every small group ministry faces. At Life.Church, some creative solutions have helped us learn to conquer these obstacles. Staffing One familiar predicament is how much staff should be devoted specifically to small groups. We always lean on the side of a smaller st...
Leadership
Is Anyone Listening?
With social media, many people express what’s going on inside their hearts with the same level of transparency as sharing what they had for lunch. “Out too late partying last night = overslept my alarm this morning. Guess I’ll be having ‘car trouble’ again.” “Yay, lunch! It’s burger & fries day!!...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Principles of Higher Hiring, Part 2
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! You can have the best product, the best strategy, and the best vision, but without the best people, your organization will always be limited! In last month's episode , we talked about two principles of making great hires. Today, we'll...
Kids
Preschool Curriculum & Bible App for Kids: A Perfect Match
We want our preschool-aged children to be more than entertained during church—we want them to really learn about Jesus and the Bible. So, we created a two-year curriculum that works hand-in-hand with...