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A Year at a Glance

When you work as part of a team, everyone has different things they're focused on and contributing to, and it's important to stay organized. Many of our teams use a program called...

Staff Development

The Best Fit: How We Hire

Our thorough recruitment process is intentionally designed to help prevent the people we hire from later being fired. When employees not only work for your organization, but they also worship at your church, it's important to...

Neighborhood Fall Fest

Here at Life.Church, we’re testing out some new strategies for reaching people in the fall. One of these strategies is throwing a Neighborhood Fall Fest at each of our campuses. We want to share that strategy with you to help your church reach more people as well! What is it? The Neighborhood Fa...

How Do You Keep Culture Consistent?

Hear from Chris Beall, Campus Pastor at Life.Church Oklahoma City, about intentionally building a strong culture that will stand the test of time. Find the Life.Church core values that Chris mentions here: https://open.life.church/training/97-the-code-what... After you watch the video, ask yoursel...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Fire Your Inner Boss

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Why do people leave their jobs? The number one reason: they don’t like their bosses. People don’t leave companies—they leave bad bosses! Why? That’s because many bosses don’t understand what it takes to be a leader. Power and influence...

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...

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...

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...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Principles of Higher Hiring, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! You can have the best product, the best strategy, and the best vision, but without the best people, your organization will always be limited! In last month's episode, we talked about two principles of making great hires. Today, we'll talk...

Campus Building Plans: Budgeting

If you’re like us at Life.Church, you want to be good stewards of the money you’ve been entrusted with. When it comes to budgeting for a new building, there will always be unanswerable questions—every situation is unique, and every set of resources and limitations affects the decisions you'll m...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How to Develop Leaders

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Last month, we talked about four dark sides developers can tend toward that keep them from leading effectively. Today, we’re going to talk about developing leaders. Developing people doesn’t happen accidentally. Developing leaders mu...

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...

Leadership Podcast: Creating a Value-Driven Culture, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Culture is more than a building or the signage hanging around it. A culture is more than an environment. Great ministries, brands, and organizations are full of intangibles created and guarded by the leader. What those intangibles ar...

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...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Leading Up, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In this episode, we're going to tackle our listeners' most commonly asked question: "How do I lead when I'm not in charge?" Why is this question so important? Because no organization will ever be what it could be without honest, upward co...

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