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![4 Positive Trends That Could Make Today's Worship Music Even Better 4 Positive Trends That Could Make Today's Worship Music Even Better](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85856.jpg?h=168&w=300)
In the last few years there have been a lot of articles written about what’s wrong with worship music, and how to make it better. So many that they've been labeled the Worship Wars. This isn’t about that.
Instead, I want to suggest four trends that are not happening ...
![Grow Or Die? Actually, There’s A Third Option – Be A Great Small Church Grow Or Die? Actually, There’s A Third Option – Be A Great Small Church](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85754.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Most church leadership principles focus on how to prepare your church for numerical growth.
That’s an important aspect of leading a church, for sure. One I want to learn more about.
But it’s just one aspect of church leadership. It shouldn’t be the entire menu. ...
![7 Advantages Of Long-Term Church Membership 7 Advantages Of Long-Term Church Membership](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85406.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Sometimes it seems like everyone is leaving the church. But that’s not the case.
While we’re right to be concerned about church-hoppers and church-droppers, people don’t typically go to a church with the plan of leaving soon. Most want to put down roots and ...
![8 Principles To Consider Before Leaving A Church You (Used To) Love 8 Principles To Consider Before Leaving A Church You (Used To) Love](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85392.jpg?h=168&w=300)
It’s hard to leave a church you used to love – and maybe still love.
In previous articles I’ve written from the pastor’s perspective about how hard it is when people leave the church you’re pastoring, and what to consider before leaving a church ...
I don’t go to church to worship Jesus.
Hear me out. It’s not as bad as it sounds.
Anyone can worship Jesus anywhere, at any time.
We don’t need a special building, a special day or a special time to do it. We don’t come into the presence of God when we enter ...
![All Churches Make Mistakes, Why Do Ours Feel Fatal? All Churches Make Mistakes, Why Do Ours Feel Fatal?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/83563.jpg?h=168&w=300)
No church is perfect.
Some churches make mistakes but keep growing and moving ahead at lightning speed, while other churches make similar mistakes, but can’t seem to make even the smallest forward progress.
Every pastor of every plateaued church experiences this. And every ...
This generation wants to honor its elders and be mentored by them.
That may not feel like it’s true – especially if you, like me, are old enough to qualify for AARP membership. But I assure you it is.
I know this because I see it all the time. Youth, both in and outside ...
![6 Principles Healthy Churches Use To Deal With Conflict Well 6 Principles Healthy Churches Use To Deal With Conflict Well](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/82727.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Conflict is inevitable. Even in a healthy marriage, family and church.
Like healthy marriages and families, healthy churches don’t avoid conflict, but they deal with it well.
I’ve been in pastoral ministry for more than 35 years. In the early days, I dealt with more ...
![“Small Churches Are Better Than Big Churches!” No. Just… No. “Small Churches Are Better Than Big Churches!” No. Just… No.](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/81155.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Celebrating small churches is great.
Doing it by putting down our brothers and sisters who attend, worship, serve and lead in larger churches?
That’s just wrong.
But it keeps happening.
Because I love and promote the value of small churches, well-meaning people keep coming ...
![Why "Get The Right People On The Bus" Doesn't Always Work For A Small Church Staff Why "Get The Right People On The Bus" Doesn't Always Work For A Small Church Staff](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/82363.jpg?h=168&w=300)
One of the biggest frustrations faced by small church pastors is a lack of resources, including so-called human resources. “If only I had more money, a better building, more people or the right people” we complain, “then we could really get something done at ...
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