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Bud Wrenn wrote a new blog post: Having The Advantage: How Organizational Health is the Most Important Element of Your Church 3 weeks, 4 days ago · View
On a scale of 1 to 10 (0 being poor and 10 being excellent), how would you rate your church’s effectiveness in the following areas? Remember, answering with a 5 is a cop-out! Getting news out about changes or events Having productive staff meetings Leading projects either inside or outside the church Ensuring that your church can be [...] -
Bud Wrenn wrote a new blog post: The Signs of Miserable Church Volunteers and Staffers 6 months, 3 weeks ago · View
In a fairly recent session with a client, I heard what they were saying, beating around the bush, trying to express their feelings of frustration about their jobs, without being too hard on their upper level management, who they personally liked. As I listened to them talk among themselves, I began to try to think of [...] -
Bud Wrenn wrote a new blog post: Overcoming ‘One Size Fits All’ Management in the Church 1 year, 3 months ago · View
One of the most frustrating things for leaders in ministry is seeing some people respond well to the way they are led, while others seem to not respond as well, or not at all. This dilemma haunts all leaders at some point(s) in their careers. The fact is that sometimes the problem IS with those [...]
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Bud Wrenn wrote a new blog post: The Long-Term Focus of the Innovative Congregation 4 years, 3 months ago · View
In the past two articles I have written for Next Step, we have made a couple of important points about innovation. First…
Innovation in a congregation is not defined by style of music, the accepted attire for those who attend worship services, or the use of drama, multimedia, etc. in the services. Rather, an innovative approach to [...]
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Bud Wrenn wrote a new blog post: More on the Innovative Congregation 4 years, 4 months ago · View
In a previous article posted on this website, “What is an Innovative Congregation?” we began to develop a definition of the term innovation as it relates to the church context.. To give a brief review, here are a few things we said….. An innovative organization…. might be known as one that …. is willing to try new [...] -
Bud Wrenn wrote a new blog post: What is an Innovative Congregation? 4 years, 6 months ago · View
Some of the biggest misconceptions in the American church today come as the result of labeling of individual churches. Churches have always been labeled. But those labels primarily have been associated with denominationalism. The church growth movement of the past 30 or so years has led to a broader variety of labels, often associated with worship style. [...]
