It is time for me to change.

Thom Rainer July 25, 2022

A church without evangelism becomes a church that . . .

Thom Rainer July 12, 2022

We identified seven reasons.

Thom Rainer June 30, 2022

For decades, many church strategies have been built around getting people in the community to come to your church.

Thom Rainer June 20, 2022

Here are 10 reasons pastors were thankful they left their ministry positions.

Thom Rainer May 19, 2022

Let’s take a trip five years into the future and look at what successful pastors did over those years.

Thom Rainer May 16, 2022

Unity is imperative for the Great Commission.

Thom Rainer April 30, 2022

There is a saying so common that it has almost become cliché: There is no such thing as a part-time pastor.

Thom Rainer April 14, 2022

While churches should not emulate culture for imitation’s sake, we can learn a lot about the mindset of those we seek to reach.

Thom Rainer March 21, 2022

A topic that does not get much attention is the dramatic shift in the front door of churches. By “front door,” I mean that place where a non-attendee will first check out a church.

Thom Rainer February 23, 2022

The church welcome ministry is more important today than it’s ever been.

Thom Rainer February 2, 2022

Though it is cliché, change is the constant in our culture.

Thom Rainer January 27, 2022

For sure, I’ve made many mistakes. I hope I’ve learned from these mistakes more than I have repeated them.

Thom Rainer December 27, 2021

Over nine out of 10 church leaders describe their church’s decline in attendance in streaming worship services as “major.” Many of them say the decline is at least 90 percent from its peak during the pandemic.

Thom Rainer December 5, 2021

We have heard from pastors more about changes they plan to make than any previous years we can recall.

Thom Rainer November 24, 2021

Here are five of the most frequent responses.

Thom Rainer November 10, 2021

Presuming we get on the other side of COVID by the end of this year, the picture for churches in America is mostly clear.

Thom Rainer October 28, 2021

I truly believe the bi-vocational movement will be both disruptive and positive. But we ignore it at our peril.

Thom Rainer October 18, 2021

We are in a historical cycle in the evangelical world where the mood is to disparage counting, attendance, and other numerical metrics.

Thom Rainer September 30, 2021

It is cliché to say the landscape of church ministry has changed in the past five years, but it is most definitely true.

Thom Rainer September 19, 2021


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