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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...

The rub always comes with the changes of change: unfamiliar faces, different music, scheduling problems, inconvenience. One layperson recently groused to me about her church’s decision to go to three Sunday services. “I love our pastor,” she said. “He’s so dynamic. But I don’t think it’s a good idea to move the traditional service to 8:00 Sunday morning. Our older folks like the traditional service. Now it will be too early for them. And besides, who will sing in the choir if they have to come at
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