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Message Support: My Big Fat Mouth

Words are powerful. They can beat us down and lift us up. They wound and they heal. And the right words at the right time can be exactly what we need to hear—or what we need to say. Let’s find the right words in a new series, My Big Fat Mouth. This training gives an overview of the series My Big F...

Encouraging Your Church to Invite with Nicky Gumbel

Encourage your attenders to invite friends to church or Alpha courses by sharing stories and helping your attenders identify their own story of faith. Hear Nicky Gumbel share what's been successful for his church and why stories are so powerful....

4 Steps for Creating an Easter Photo Op

Easter is one of the biggest opportunities of the year for your church to share Christ with your community. In addition to the Easter message, worship, and prayers, having a photo-op area is one extra touch that can provide value and community to attenders. When you invite people to take a picture i...

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...

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...

The Summer Slump

Most churches experience a summer slump. This can mean attendance drops, giving slows down, and volunteers don't show up. As leaders, what should we do during down times? Although I can’t answer the question for you specifically, I would say, “Do something intentional!" Here are some ideas t...

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...

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...

Giving & Finance

Life.Church Core Giving and Generosity Beliefs

Core Beliefs The following are Core Beliefs around giving and generosity at Life.Church. However, we encourage you to prayerfully identify and define your own core beliefs that will govern conversations around generosity at your church. • God owns it all, and He provides everything we need to ac...

Creating an illumiNations Campaign Strategy for Your Church

Imagine if you tried to share the Gospel with someone, and they couldn’t understand any of the Bible. This is a reality for more than a billion people who still don’t have a complete Bible in their language. And more than 165 million people don’t have even one Bible verse in their language. Life.C...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Motivating Your Team

When we think about motivation, it’s easy to start with the wrong assumption about people. People are not unmotivated. Everyone is motivated by something—they’re just not all motivated by the same things. In fact, let’s look at a good leader’s definition of motivation: The art of leading someone to...

How to Have a Strong Developmental Conversation

At some point in your leadership, you’ll encounter a staff member or volunteer who isn’t cutting it. And if you’re a part of any growing organization, your organization is eventually going to outgrow someone on your team. The hard part, especially for those of us who are spiritual leaders, is that...

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!!!...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Sharpening Your Communication Skills, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In part one of "Sharpening Your Communication Skills," we talked about a few ways to become a better communicator. Today, let’s talk about the hats you wear as a communicator. For me, I might be a dad, or a husband, and a pastor. Some oth...

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