Church Security: How Do We Keep Our Churches Safe in Today’s America? In the wake of The Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennesee, Ed Stetzer offers a mix of pastoral and practical advice regarding church and church school security. Small Church, Big Potential In the American context we tend to
Four Types of Church Members Based on Their Frequency of AttendanceAt Church Answers, we have been engaged with church leaders for years. We asked them to discern the base level of commitment of their church members. Though these numbers are not precise, they do represent the essence of what we’ve
3 Key Steps for Effective Communication in a Small Church When you communicate in a small church ministry, it must be a combination of informing your internal and external audiences. Creating Content for a Younger GenerationToday, reaching teens and young adults with messages that resonate with them is very different
By Keith Boyette The process of church disaffiliation has completed its second wave, with churches disaffiliating through special sessions of their annual conferences in the fall. This piecemeal process of disaffiliation is not what we had hoped for when I joined other traditionalist, centrist, and progressive leaders to announce the Protocol
To read more from Larry, visit LDS365. More Americans are now choosing cremation over traditional burials, but is cremation aligned with doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Statistics from the National Funeral Directors Association show that in 2021, the cremation rate was projected to be more than
Battling Familiarity in Your Church Has your church become so comfortable in the familiar that it misses what guests are experiencing? Guests will break through the confines of the comfortable and see Christ, or they will see the church stuck in the familiar and never return. Three Reasons to Plant
Let us face it: our history tells us that deep divisions have been annoyingly persistent in the Church. From the very beginning, Peter and Paul—whose feast day we celebrate together on June 29 as pillars of the Church—went at it pretty hard over their fundamental differences. Paul even speaks of
7 Signs Your Church Will Never ChangeHow do you know when your church is simply so resistant to change that it isn’t going to budge? How do you know the problem is so deep that radical intervention is required? How Do You Work Alongside Your Team?Do you want to harness