TOM'S BLOG

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Reaching The 99

Ninety-Nine percent  of the people who visit your church will visit your church website first and 99% of the people who visit your church website will never visit your church. To validate this statist...

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Getting to Know Your Congregation

In-depth Congregational Analysis

There are a lot of helpful tools to use when trying to inspect the community around a church, but how many tools help you know the heart of your present flock? Are yo...
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The Misrepresentation of Being Agreeable to Change

Do churches ever misrepresent themselves? Sure they do! Ask most pastors within their first two to three years of being on a church field.

“They told me they were mission-minded. They said they reall...

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What Does Church Revitalization Mean?

Church Revitalization is a movement within protestant evangelicalism, which emphasizes the missional work of turning a plateaued or rapidly declining church around and moving it back towards growth.

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Change Happens! We Cannot Escape It!

Change often frightens people. People do not relax well in the midst of change. It makes them anxious. As a church planter you will discover that nothing is more challenging than leading through times...

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Renovate Digital Conference Re-Launches Today!

Have you missed going to our live national conference in Orlando or do you simply wish that you could go back? We have good news for you. Renovate Virtual is Here! Now, you can watch and listen to pas...

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Why You Should Join Renovate Virtual Coaching Network

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If your church has plateaued, is in decline, or is not moving forward as quickly as you wish the RENOVATE Church Revitalization Coaching Network i...

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Are You a Church Revitalizer?

Take the Church Revitalizer Assessment

The Renovate Group continues to discover, develop, and deploy church revitalizers who have a passion to see the plateaued, declining, or dying church recover an...

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The Golden Rule of Evangelism

posted by: Mark Weible from Fishing on The Other Side:

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 While speaking to a group of pastors in Jacksonville, I asked this question, "What is the Golden Rule of evangelism?" No...

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Who Wants To Be Reached?

He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” (John 6:65)

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After reading the Introduction to  Fishing On The Other...

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Signs the Small Church Pastor Has Given Up Seeking Revitalization church reitaization

By Tom Cheyney

Thinking about church revitalization and renewal in a smaller church the first thing I would say is to echo my friend Karl Vaters when he says that small does not mean unhealthy, insul...

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What Declining Churches Are Learning About Doing Virtual

By Tom Cheyney 

Remember: A stingy planter gets a stingy crop; a lavish planter gets a lavish crop. I want each of you to take plenty of time to think it over, and make up your own mind what you will...

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