5 Tactics to Win the Implementation Battle
The number one barrier to a successful revitalization process is implementation. It is easy to become a slave to the urgent. Sunday comes every seven…
Category: Leadership Development
5 Risks Your Church Should Take
This article is not about taking a chance on building a massive facility, saddling your congregation with decades of debt. It’s about risks. The one…
Three Most Common Revitalization Mistakes
Author’s Note: January 15, 2020 marks the launch of Church Revitalization University–an online, guided process for your church to engage in our Strategic Envisioning process.…
How to Recruit a Healthy Church Board
One of the most frequent questions we get from pastors is: How do we build a board that works? You need to recruit leaders that exhibit the eight core…
Top Five Ways to Thank Your Team
The word “team” means different things to different people, and the size of your church will largely determine the group of people that come to…
Building Your Revitalization Team | Church Revitalization Podcast Ep. 2
When The Malphurs Group works with a church in our Strategic Envisioning process, we guide the church through a revitalization team selection process.…
Leveraging the Summer Slump
There are a lot of well-meaning people who will try and tell you that your church can grow through the summer. Maybe your church shouldn’t try to go…
Breaking the Solo Pastor Barrier
Being a Solo Pastor is difficult work. I can relate. For over 20 years I worked as a small-business computer consultant. In the beginning I…
How to Recruit More Volunteers
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.” – Jesus Luke 10:2 reminds us of the uncomfortable truth about recruiting volunteers: there will always…
Do You Have a Leadership Pipeline to Nowhere?
“Leadership Pipeline” remains a popular buzzword in business and ministry, and for good reason. We do need to be developing leaders at all levels of…