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Leadership
Increase Church Attendance by Building an Invite Culture
If you’re like most pastors and church leaders, increasing attendance is a thought that’s constantly on your mind. In this short series of videos, Life.Church Open Network Pastor Charlie LaTurno walks through steps your church can take to build an invite culture....
Leadership
Developing a Culture of Leadership
Join Terry & Judith Crist, Lead Pastors of Hillsong Phoenix, as they discuss the principles and practises to intentionally create a culture within your staff and volunteers of personal initiative and extreme ownership. Special thanks to our partner, Hillsong Leadership Network, for providing this c...
Leadership
How to Last in Ministry: Pastor Craig Groeschel
God has entrusted us as pastors and church leaders to share the Gospel, and we need to be the best version of ourselves to do so. That's why we’re sharing a very special talk Pastor Craig Groeschel gave exclusively to our Life.Church staff: "How to Thrive in Ministry." In this video, Pastor Craig G...
General
Several Speakers on One Weekend
Several times a year, Life.Church pastors and leaders 'team teach' with Pastor Craig. Team teaching allows you to take the baton from Pastor Craig and preach your own portion of the message. On Open, we provide flexibility for you to participate in team-teach or not. To participate, use the 'opening...
Messages
Message Support: Developing New Speakers with Team Teaching
Several times a year, Life.Church campus pastors and other staff 'team teach' with Pastor Craig. Team teaching allows you to take the baton from Pastor Craig during a series and create your own portion of the message. It's a great opportunity to flex your teaching muscles or empower a new speaker to...
Kids
Treasuring Children With Additional Needs
Join Jess & Nathan Mclean, Hillsong Australia Kids Pastors, as they reveal ideas to support children and families living with disability. Discover how Hillsong's ‘Treasure Chest’ ministry makes church a great experience for all. Special thanks to our partner, Hillsong Leadership Network, for provid...
Youth
Feed Lead: Table Talk Series
This training series called "Lead" from Feed will help youth pastors and leaders do ministry more innovatively. Lead is for any youth leader that’s hungry to grow and looking for new ways of thinking about and doing youth ministry....
Tech
Get Smart: Using Technology During the Experience
Our Senior Pastor, Craig Groeschel, and many of our campus pastors, will often teach using an iPad, tablet, or smartphone. Here's how they access their notes and related Bible verses...
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 will...
General
How Do You Handle Criticism
One of the most common questions that I’m asked by young pastors is, “How do you handle the critics?” I’ve realized that no matter what a leader does, he or she will be criticized. For example, I’ve been criticized a lot for building the church around my preaching. When I started using more tea...
Leadership
Worth Revisiting: Excellence/Effectiveness
There are several principles that I seem to revisit when talking with pastors. A couple of these are the cost/excellence curve and the cost/effectiveness curve. If I gave you $100,000, could you make your house or apartment excellent? I imagine that with some careful investments in furniture, p...
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...
Kids
Reopening LifeKids: Leader Communication
In a recent Facebook Live, we discussed our process for reopening LifeKids. Our LifeKids pastors talked about how important it is to communicate often with leaders, and discussed some example videos from one of our Life.Church campuses. Use these videos as inspiration as you create your own for the...
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...
Worship
Behind the Song: What We Do
When asked to write a song for the upcoming message series in one week, our worship pastors stepped-up to the challenge and created four. Hear Worship Pastor Kyle O'Neal share the story behind our Life.Church original song "What We Do."...
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