TOM'S BLOG

Restarting or Repotting

The final Pillar of Church Revitalization is the hardest and often only happens once the churches patriarchs and matriarchs have tried everything else they could think of to...

Restoration

This sixth area of Church Revitalization deals with things a church and a minister must go through when circumstances necessitate that a restoration process is called for! Things such...

Reinvention

This fifth pillar of Church Revitalization deals with tools and techniques necessary to assist the church when it is necessary to reinvent itself to a changing community. When a church...

Renewing

Church Renewal is the forth pillar of the seven pillars of Church Revitalization process. Often the church simply needs to get back to that which was working and get back on track. When...

Re-visioning

A little bit harder certainly but not as hard as the descending order of decline that will eventually lead to the Restarting pillar of revitalization! Have you ever seen a church that...

Refocusing is the second pillar and it helps churches that are growing but still need to set new challenges and look for new opportunities to expand their gospel witness into their target area....

Revitalization

Perhaps the easiest pillar to address, some observers of church revitalization and renewal argue that the era of small churches is over and that the future belongs to the arising...

Our Lord loves the local New Testament Church and it is His desire to see it grow! The need for Church Revitalization has never been greater in North America! An estimated 340,000 Protestant...

Number Nine – Passivity, Indifference, Apathy and Church Burnout

Ministers can become burned out and churches can find themselves that way also. Passivity within a church is hard to eliminate...

Number Eight – Control Factions within the Church

“Not in my Church!” the elder might say. “We have been doing it this way for forty years now and I see no reason the stop...

Number Seven – Fear towards Change and Displaying Risk Paralysis

New churches love taking risks because they are new and everything is a risk! You do not launch a church from nothing unless...

In most churches in need of church revitalization or one of the other Seven Pillars of Church Revitalization there are some elements, ingredients, or instruments that become components that are...