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Church Online Is Messy

Our Church Online experiences are about more than just watching a sermon. Church Online is about meeting people right where they are, no matter where in the world they are. It's about relationship, community, prayer, and hope. Whenever we create a ministry, outreach, or program, we focus on more tha...

Message Support: Joyce Meyer and "The Right Heart"

Love God, love people—sounds simple, but it can be hard to live out. Lead your church through this two-week sermon series from guest speaker Joyce Meyer and learn how to love God and love His people by having The Right Heart....

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...

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...

Church Online Platform

The Chat Is Where It's At

When you first navigate to a Church Online Platform service (see an example at https://live.life.church/) you see two main components: a video player and a chat window. We sometimes hear, "Why does your Church Online experience have chat…isn't it about watching the sermon?" Church online is ab...

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...

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...

The Imaginary Deadline

For years, I struggled with managing my time effectively. One tool that has dramatically increased my effectiveness is the “imaginary deadline.” If I’ve got a project without a deadline, it’s easy to procrastinate or work halfheartedly. But, when an assignment has a hard deadline, I start faste...

The Timing of Feedback

Not only do you want to ask the right people the right questions, but you’ll also want to do it at the right time. I see three different times when feedback is valuable: 1) Before the event Most leaders I know look for feedback on the back end. I crave it on the front end. Each week bef...

Online Ministry

Online Tools for Online Ministries

The digital age we live in has empowered the Church to reach more people than ever before. There are a lot of choices out there when it comes to digital tools and tech, and that's a blessing! But, it can be hard to slog through...

Message Support: Jentezen Franklin

This is a one-week message about being all God has called us to be. It takes faith beyond ourselves to believe we can do incredible things, and it takes a power beyond ourselves to do them. In the right hands, the ordinary can be extraordinary. Join us this weekend to see how a simple twig can be mo...

Fasting From Church Stuff

For years I tried to learn from and be like other ministers. I listened to messages, attended conferences, and devoured every Christian book I could. Each time I met a new leader, I tried to become more like them. A few years ago though, God led me to do something very different. (I'm not neces...

Message Support: Love Like You've Never Been Hurt

This one-week message series is about the radical kind of love that Jesus calls each one of us to live out. The people we love the most can wound us the deepest. We hold onto grudges, refuse to forgive, and build up walls to keep the pain away. But healing can’t start until you break down those barr...

Pastors, Anxiety, and Burnout

From the outside, we as pastors and church leaders probably seem like we have it all together. God’s calling is on our lives, and we’re doing the most important work in the world. How could we be stressed out? After all, we only work on Sundays, right? Wrong. Working in ministry is tough. In fact,...

Church Social Media: Advanced Strategies for Facebook and Instagram

If your church is on social media, chances are you use Facebook and Instagram as part of your strategy. So, how do you grow an audience on these platforms? What are tips for engagement? And, what about influencer marketing? At the Church Social Media Roundtable, social media managers and communicat...

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