TOM'S BLOG

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 on...

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. Questi...

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 mega ...

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 churches ...

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 and rea...

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 doing it the way we have al...

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 you are a...

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 either...

Number Five – An “Us versus Them” Attitude

Matriarchs and Patriarchs in churches easily can fall into an “Us-es versus
Them-ins” type of attitude. As a Patriarch you have guided and actively participa...

Number Four - A Church Closed to “Outsiders” and Visitors

If you have ever visited a church where you knew from the first moment you entered the facility that you were an outsider and were less than ...

Pastors Who Do Not Know How to Lead

Closely interrelated to number two above is when a pastor refuses to lead the church towards church renewal. While I would be the first to offer that merely becomi...

If you are going to begin the task of church revitalization there is a large commitment that must be made to the work required. I tell most, if not all, of my churches I consult with, that if they are...