When Your Church Feels Stuck: 7 Unavoidable Questions Every Leader Must Answer

When Your Church Feels Stuck: 7 Unavoidable Questions Every Leader Must Answer

by Chris Sonksen
When Your Church Feels Stuck: 7 Unavoidable Questions Every Leader Must Answer

When Your Church Feels Stuck: 7 Unavoidable Questions Every Leader Must Answer

by Chris Sonksen

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Overview

Every pastor wants their church to grow, but the reality is that most churches are stagnant or shrinking, leaving most pastors frustrated, weary, and discouraged. They continue to search for answers at conferences, in books, and on websites, but they don't find them. They don't realize that the answers that can actually make a difference in their ministry are the ones they need to give themselves.

When Your Church Feels Stuck poses seven unavoidable questions church leaders must answer before they can chart the unique path to growth for their church. These challenging questions address the key subjects of mission, strategy, values, metrics, team alignment, culture, and services, and the way pastors answers these questions will help them discover the real reasons their churches are stuck—and what steps to take to facilitate real growth.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493407804
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/06/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 975,595
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Chris Sonksen understands church growth and how to help pastors who may feel stuck because their church isn't growing. His personal experience comes from his own success in pioneering South Hills Church, a multi-campus church that has been widely recognized for its unprecedented growth and strategic approaches to doing ministry. In addition, Chris's church growth expertise has led him to found Church BOOM, an organization that has provided personal coaching to more than two hundred churches and impacted thousands of leaders. Chris and his wife, Laura, have two children and live in Southern California.

Table of Contents

1 My Church Is Stuck 9

2 God Determines the Talent, We Determine the Choices 21

3 Making Excuses Will Keep You from Winning 33

4 The Six Phases of a Church … What Phase Are You In? 45

5 Question 1: Mission 65

What Do We Do?

6 Question 2: Strategy 85

How Do We Get It Done?

7 Question 3: Values 99

What Are the Guiding Principles We Live By?

8 Question 4: Metrics 113

How Do We Measure a Win?

9 Question 5: Team Alignment 127

Do We Have the Right People in the Right Seats Moving in the Right Direction?

10 Question 6: Culture 147

How Do We Change the Culture of Our Church?

11 Question 7: Services 163

How Do We Match What We Say Is Important and What We Really Do?

Acknowledgments 179

Notes 181

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