Effective Follow-Up Strategies by Adam Hamilton

This is Chapter 11 from The Pastor’s Guide to Growing a Christlike Church .  Adam is pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS.  My thoughts - Let’s keep it simple but purposeful pastors.
FREQUENTLY PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT WE DID WHEN OUR CHURCH
was just starting that was most important to its later growth and [...]

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Six Tactical Mistakes Churches Make

This is a copy of something Bill Easum wrote on 8/24/09.  Normally I would write my own stuff, but I found this engaging and thought provoking and thought maybe you’d have some thoughts.  A rare post for me, but I just thought Easum’s thoughts were super relevant.  BTW - On # 4, Adam Hamilton of [...]

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If I’m a New Church Pastor…I Get “The Story of God”

While listening to NPR yesterday on the highway I was intrigued by a story that told about a man who
captured stories and photos from a small town in Iowa.  This man went to Oxford, IA, and took photos of 870 people out of 876 in the whole town.  He also did this book display using [...]

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Ten Stupid Things

Occasionally, OK, more than occasionally I watch this online deal called The SHOW.  It’s produced by Leadership Network and they archive live interviews with pastors and leaders about stuff pastors and church leaders really dig.  I just said “dig.”  Anyway, Geoff Surratt did this interview this past June on ‘Ten Stupid Things.’  This was about [...]

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Your 1st 100 Days as Pastor

I’m not so proud to presuppose that this blog has a wide readership among the pastor core of my denomination or any other denominational pastor or clergy core.  This blog is simply - simple.  I throw out some ideas, some resource suggestions, some musings from time to time, but this blog among the vast sea [...]

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