TOM'S BLOG

What Does Church Revitalization Mean?

Every place I go people ask me for a definition of church revitalization. Here is one I have used for at least the last ten years:

Church Revitalization is a...

Ten Reasons Churches are Challenged When Making the Necessary Changes

There is a guide to stop the slide and it is found in the Bible. This material is about helping those ninety plus percent of...

Not Every Church is a Candidate for a Restart

Interestingly, many laymen often ask me if I think that their church could be a candidate for a restart. Usually they share of the need for their...

The restart based church revitalization model is being used all across North America.  Any group planting churches or working in the area of church revitalization should have a restart...

Principles for Peek Performance Planters

I want to share three dynamic principles that if they are in your plant, they will provide pavement for the potholes. You will never cover all of them, but...

5. Control

Where the first item dealt with the one who is in charge as in a single leader, this last item focuses on who will come alongside the leader and help him grow the church. New blood needs...

3. Charter (Constitution stuff)

The churches charter (legal constitution & bylaws stuff) is another area that is hard for the existing church to let go of. Though it is not a document that is...

1. Who is in Charge

The call for revitalization often begins with the first item that needs to be relinquished within the church and that is who is leading the revitalization effort! Most if not...

When you begin working in the area of church revitalization and renewal there will be at least three to five things depending on how your church is structured and the polity it works within, that...

If church is to be relevant than we must be willing to do our part to make it relevant. One of the problems we have as Christians is that we expect the church to awaken us, to get us excited about...

R – Relational

We live in a world where people need relationships that are cultivated and sustained. The church is a social, relational organization. A relevant church needs structures to...