Category: Church Revitalization


If Your Church doesn’t look like the Community…
This is a guest post. It is actually a 4 question survey that we ask all team members to complete about their experience through the Reaching the Summit process .


Accepting the Brutal Facts of Reality
Why are we afraid of reality? It is true in business, in the church, and even in our everyday conversations with friends and family, we obscure the reality of life.


Vulnerability in Leadership
Many years ago, I hired in, selling vacuum cleaners, in homes. Within four weeks our office management and the owner asked me to take on the role of the sales


Church Revitalization Book Review: Sticky Church, by Larry Osborne
The Evangelism Office of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions has a strategy that we use with churches to help them have a comprehensive approach to reaching people. The


Reaching the Summit: Avoiding and Reversing Decline in the Church
Encouraging, challenging, insightful and practical are words to describe the work George Yates has accomplished with his book Reaching the Summit. The subtitle of the book is “Avoiding and Reversing


Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
John F. Kennedy said, “Change is the law of life.” There are many pastors who wish they could break or circumvent that law, but it would be better to embrace