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A Christ-Centered, Others-Oriented Challenge
When crisis strikes, as believers our light shines bright. The Church was created to minister to and meet the needs of people filled with fear and doubt. During the COVID-19 outbreak, Pastor Craig Groeschel preached a midweek sermon to encourage Life.Church attenders to do seven things to serve peop...
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. Poor...
Staff Development
Developing Staff: Bring In. Build Up. Train. Send Out.
The purpose for our staff here at Life.Church is to bring in, build up, train, and then send out. We recognize that great staff aren't found but developed in the right environments. That's why we create those environments and bring people in. While they are with us, we build our staff up and train t...
Kids
Bible Adventure: The Research Behind the Resource
To create the Bible App for Kids Curriculum, our Content Team spent hours studying the learning habits of preschoolers and reviewing successful kids programming. The result was a two-year curriculum for ages 2 through 5 that keeps preschoolers' attention and teaches them about Christ. In anything yo...
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See Who You Know
The Rock community is made up of churches around the world that work together to share tools and strategies. This includes churches of all sizes, including Life.Church. This community is what sets Rock apart and drives the speedy innovation that Rock is known for. Check out the list of churches that...
Leadership
Does the Size of Your Church Matter? (Part 3)
One option for those who prefer small churches is to pray like crazy that you don’t reach new people, so your church will stay small–just the way you like it! Here are some more options: ●Start new churches. Instead of trying to bring people in, let’s send some people out. ●Start or parti...
Staff Development
Leadership XP: Laying the Groundwork for an Internship Program
Before we created Leadership XP, our internship program here at Life.Church, we needed to lay the appropriate groundwork with our staff. First, we established the goal of the program and made sure everyone was on the same page. If your goal is to grow leaders, make sure everyone knows that. If you...
Multi-site
Planting a New Campus with the Right Heart
If you lead an existing church or campus, and you hear that your church will be planting a new church, campus, or multi-site location, it can be hard to keep your heart right. You may feel like you're losing attenders, losing the tithe, or losing the cachet you alone had enjoyed in your town. We s...
Leadership
The Death of the Five-Year Plan
When I started in ministry two decades ago, everyone I knew was making five-year plans. While thoughtful planning is wise and biblical, I’ve changed how I plan. Instead of planning for specific buildings, campuses, staff roles, and outreach, I plan to be prepared for opportunities that I can’t...
Staff Development
Being Open-Handed with Our Staff
We believe our greatest resource is our people, our staff, and it is our job to steward them well for the season they are with us. Seasons have beginnings and ends, so we are intentional about developing and equipping our staff for whatever God has next for them. And when the time comes for a staff...
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
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Creating an Empowering Culture, Part 1
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Today, we’ll talk about how empowering your team matters more than you can imagine. You may have a good product, a good strategy, a good plan, and a good vision, but without an empowering culture, your organization will always struggle....
Giving & Finance
The Take Back Offering
At Life.Church, one of our values is irrational generosity. But what does it mean to be irrationally generous? If we’re giving something away that goes above and beyond what’s expected, that’s probably a good start. One of the things first-time attenders might be surprised by is something we call t...
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...
Missions
How to Neighbor: CarePortal
At Life.Church, we believe the local church is the hope of the world. That’s because the church isn’t just a building. The “capital C” Church is all about showing Christ’s love through its people. Scripture specifically calls us to care for orphans and widows (James 1:27). We looked closely at...
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