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Church Revitalization
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The Key Every Pastor Needs Before Leading Change
On November 12, 2013 a small painting, roughly 30″ by 22″, sold for $32,645,000.00. With a surface area of 684.1875 square inches, that...
Bud Brown
2 min read
Does your church fit God’s Kingdom program?
Pastor, are you still trying to make sense of what God’s doing in your church? Do you know how your life and your work dovetails with...
Bud Brown
4 min read
5 Times Pastors Should Say “No!” In Order to Change a Church
Relentless focus on the mission. Uncompromising devotion to the vision. Insistence on “no more business as usual.” These hallmark...
Bud Brown
5 min read
Change Management: Tools Every Pastor Needs
Back in olden days, between the end of WWII and the end of the War in Vietnam, pastors had a simple goal for themselves and their...
Bud Brown
4 min read
Turnaround Pastors Aren’t Like Everyone Else
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” 1 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s pungent observation of the rich can be...
Gary Westra
4 min read
10 people turnaround pastors push out the door
Turnaround pastors face a grim reality. When they introduce change that will eventually produce life and growth in the church, people...
Bud Brown
6 min read
4 Things Jesus Never Said About Church
I’m going to jump in the deep water here. I’m going to swim against the riptide. Why am I dumb enough to jump into deep water and swim...
Bud Brown
6 min read
Surprise! 2 pastoral values that predict church decline
There are two surprising values held by pastors who preside over church decline. Two of the most cherished evangelical values have ...
Bud Brown
1 min read
1 question reveals how turnaround pastors lead
Turnaround pastors are distinguished by how they deal with one question. Not by their answers. By how they deal with the question. “Is...
Bud Brown
2 min read
4 responses to the new megachurch next door
Bad news. You just got word that a mega- multi- church is metastasizing again, throwing up a campus down the street. They’ll probably...
Bud Brown
4 min read
The Turnaround Pastor’s Favorite Beatitude
“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not get bent out of shape.” If you’re going to be a turnaround pastor, you’ve got to be...
Bud Brown
3 min read
What one noted scholar says about turnaround pastors
What he said… Gary McIntosh: The pastor is the key to church turnaround As the research on Turnaround Pastors continues to emerge, expect...
Bud Brown
1 min read
Ground Breaking Research on Church Revitalization Pastors
At Turnaround Pastor Inc., we have done a study of pastors who led their church in a church revitalization turnaround. Using The Birkman...
Gary Westra
3 min read
A Tale of Two Barns –A Tale of Two Churches
Dr. Gordon E. Penfold Co-founder of Turnaround Pastors, Inc. The Two Barns “It was the best of times and it was the worst of times ....
Gordon Penfold
6 min read
Why Pastors and Churches Prefer the Status Quo
They just couldn’t bring themselves to kill the midweek children’s program. It had been singularly unproductive for years. The leader had...
Bud Brown
7 min read
Why pastors and churches won’t change
Think you’re up for the challenge? Chances are 9:1 against your being able to pull it off. Here’s the scenario: You’re sitting on the...
Bud Brown
5 min read
1 Helpful Tool for Church Revitalization
You got to know who’s out there! Since this is my blog post, I get to define a couple of key terms. That’s one of the benefits of...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Relationships: 1 Key to Church Turnaround Leadership
It’s a stark fact most pastors wish they could avoid. The person most responsible for leading a dying church into life and growth sits in...
Bud Brown
11 min read
1 Key to Church Turnaround
I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. After all, our church has been in sustained evangelistic prayer for more than a year. We...
Bud Brown
13 min read
Pinpointing Turnaround Pastors
A church in your bailiwick asks for help. The Search Committee is screening candidates to be the next pastor. They’ve been on plateau –...
Bud Brown
4 min read
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