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Kids Ministry: Creating Cohesion Across the Ages
Years ago, our early childhood, elementary, and youth teams created their own curriculums. They operated largely independent of each other and focused on different topics at different times. But after much research and strategizing, we realized we could be more effective if we aligned our stude...
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 t...
Leadership
5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 1: Value-Driven Culture
Day 1: Create a value-driven culture.One of the most important things you can do as a leader in a new year is to evaluate your culture and your values. Your culture is a combination of what you create and what you allow. And, the number one force that shapes your culture is your values. Watch this...
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. At...
Leadership
Don’t Fight Back
Some criticism of our ministries will be valid. Others will come from partially informed people who might never understand or endorse our philosophy of ministry. With the explosion of online critics, it is tempting to jump into a conversation to tell your side of the story. While there might be...
Leadership
The Power of Feedback
One of the greatest tools for a leader or speaker is truthful feedback. Unfortunately, in our church cultures, we often develop feedback-averse environments. People might find themselves in one of two wrong extremes: 1) We believe that a leader (or preacher) should have heard from God and n...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Secrets of Superior Decision-Making
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! The small decisions we make every day have a bigger impact on our success than a few big ones. In today's episode, let's take a look at some of the ways we can all improve in our decision-making. Our generation has a growing problem with...
Leadership
Good Social Media or a Prideful Heart?
We know God opposes the proud. But some forms of social media seem to have redefined what pride is and what it’s not. For example: Imagine if I stood before our church and repeated things I had heard others say: “Joe Smith said, ‘Pastor Craig, you are the best preacher ever! Your sermons change...
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 enco...
Leadership
Leadership Podcast: Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 1
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In this episode, Craig will discuss the importance of urgency in success. The greatest threat to future success is current success. Success feeds pride, and pride kills urgency: nothing fails like success. In many organizations, urgency i...
Leadership
Following the Recipe
It’s not unusual for ministries to take a close look at other churches. Often, they’re in search of the recipe for success. It’s great that churches can learn from each other. Our church has certainly been helped by it, and we hope other churches have found value in what we’ve been able to offe...
Youth
How to Talk with Teens about Suicide
Teens deal with serious, real-life issues in their day-to-day lives, which is why we aren’t afraid to tackle heavy topics at Switch, our youth ministry at Life.Church. Suicide can be a tough topic to address, but starting the conversation with students might help alleviate some of the stigma and ev...
Operations
Campus Building Plans: The Importance of Height
At Life.Church, we strive to honor Christ and His church with integrity. Often integrity is illustrated in the way we spend money. When constructing new buildings there are plenty of variables to keep in mind.  These variables drive costs and can create or alleviate friction both in your bu...
Communications
Tips for Establishing a Communication Review Process
Below you'll find our best practices for the communication review process here at Life.Church. Operations Pastors/Associate Operations Pastors should monitor written communication without being a bottleneck—working more like a consultant than a content creator. Talk to your Campus Pastor about wha...
Leadership
The Right Questions
In the church world, you will almost always get feedback. But not all feedback is equal. Finding the right feedback is vitally important. A key to finding the right feedback is asking the right questions. Here are a few questions that won’t be very effective: ● What did you think of the s...
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