Chuck Lawless, Dean of Graduate Studies at Southeastern Seminary, recently shared ten insights gleaned through many years serving as a church consultant. Here is a summary list; for the details, click here.
- Churches often wait too long to address decline.
- Statistics really are helpful.
- Prayer in unhealthy churches is reactive rather than proactive.
- Churches often settle for numerical growth rather than life transformation.
- Churches do not know their community.
- Most churches aren’t ready for conversion growth if God were to send it.
- Sometimes the most obvious suggestions seem the most revolutionary.
- The leader in the pulpit matters.
- In most churches, somebody wants the congregation to make an eternal difference.
- God is still growing His church.
