4 Areas That Drive Effective Church Assimilation
by: Steve Caton
Assimilation, Church Community Builder, Connection, Hospitality, Steve Caton
Is your church’s assimilation engine running well? What area needs the most improvement?
ABOUT STEVE CATON
Steve Caton is part of the Leadership Team at Church Community Builder. He leverages a unique background in technology, fundraising and church leadership to help local churches decentralize their processes and equip their people to be disciple makers.
Steve is a contributing author on a number of websites, including the Vision Room, ChurchTech Today, Innovate for Jesus and the popular Church Community Builder Blog. He also co-wrote the eBook “Getting Disciple Making Right”.
While technology is what Steve does on a daily basis, impacting and influencing the local church is what really matters to him……as well as enjoying deep Colorado powder with his wife and two sons!
Meet Dave Bair – Process Coach at Church Community Builder
by: Steve Caton
Culture is the glue that makes processes more effective and sustainable. Culture must be congruent with the processes as they can sabotage each other if they don’t line up.
4 Ways to Hit Your Rhythm This Fall
by: Steve Caton
All of life is full of rhythm — but too often the competing needs of ministry, personal and family life can create a discordant tune. Finding the right rhythm can prevent burnout and lead to effective ministry.
How to Systematically Improve Your Church’s Ministry to Volunteers
by: Steve Caton
It’s time to take the guessing game out of improving the way our churches recruit, engage, and disciple volunteers.
7 Steps to Church Failure
by: Steve Caton
What are some of the steps that will lead to church failure?
Staying in Ministry May Be Harder Than You Think
by: Steve Caton
Working in ministry can be the most fulfilling and challenging thing that someone can do with his or her life, yet all too often, they find themselves struggling with burnout and considering a career change.
Why Technology is a Senior Leadership Decision
by: Steve Caton
Church Community Builder, Leadership Decision, Steve Caton, Technology
We live in a time when every church should be using technology to equip people and empower ministry.
Vibrant Community: The Secret DNA of Every Church
by: Steve Caton
What is your church doing to create a vibrant community that transcends even the most popular brands?
The Constants of Church Community
by: Steve Caton
Where community is fostered, authentic life change is experienced.
Becoming a Church of Disciples Who Make Disciples
by: Steve Caton
The importance of building a culture that combines disciple making with mission and how your church can begin the shift from merely reaching people to making disciples who in turn are equipped to go and make more disciples.
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Thank you Ed for sharing your insights into the Church Growth Movement. I have my reservations with Church Growth models because it has done more damage than good in the Body of Christ. Over the years, western churches are more focused on results, formulas and processes with little or no emphasis on membership and church discipline. Pastors and vocational leaders are burnt out because they're overworked.
I do believe that the Church Growth model is a catalyst to two destructive groups: The New Apostolic Reformation and the Emerging Church. Both groups overlap and have a very loose definition. They're both focus on contemporary worship, expansion of church brand (franchising), and mobilizing volunteering members as 'leaders' to grow their ministry. Little focus on biblical study, apologetics and genuine missional work with no agenda besides preaching of the gospel.
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Thank you for sharing such a good article. It is a great lesson I learned from this article. I am one of the leaders in Emmanuel united church of Ethiopia (A denomination with more-than 780 local churches through out the country). I am preparing a presentation on succession planning for local church leaders. It will help me for preparation If you send me more resources and recommend me books to read on the topic. I hope we may collaborate in advancing leadership capacity of our church. God Bless You and Your Ministry.
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Amen!!
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