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Empowering Your Church through Creativity and Change: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

Besides death and taxes there is one sure thing in life for church leaders: people don’t like you messin’ with the status quo. Making changes at church is a little like kicking a sleeping grizzly. Or playing with her cubs. You risk getting mauled. While people say they want change and improvement, they often would rather things stay comfortably familiar. How can a pastor stay creative and...

Original thinking is seldom original. —ROBERT J. MORGAN For a long time, I didn’t consider myself creative. The very term intimidated me. I’m a traditional guy at heart, a little staid and stuffy. I don’t bungee-jump or tie-dye. I prefer Bach to rock, and G. F. Handel to M. C. Hammer. I enjoy the doxology on the Lord’s Day, and we still have Sunday night services. But I wasn’t always that way. As a child, my imagination resembled a kitten in a room of windup toys. I chased
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