Category Archives: church growth

Innovative Churches

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

Tony Morgan asks what makes a church innovative. My response: The most innovative churches (or organizations) are those that employ the most discontinuous methods/practices/strategies to fulfill their mission. Therefore, some of the churches we judge “innovative” are simply so in … Continue reading →

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We Didn’t Make It

Posted on July 21, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

It happened yet again – we didn’t make the list of America’s 50 Most Influential Churches.  Tim Stevens, on staff at one of the churches that did make the list, isn’t very excited. He thinks it’s mostly irrelevant. He says, … Continue reading →

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Which Church Would You Rather Attend?

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

From the Wall Street Journal [“In Europe, God is (Not) Dead,” by Andrew Higgins]: Consider the scene on a recent Sunday at Stockholm’s Hedvig Eleonara Church, a parish of the Church of Sweden, a Lutheran institution that until 2000 was … Continue reading →

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Learning from Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

I first heard Patrick Lencioni at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit a few years ago. He spoke then on the content of his book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Well, I’ve finally read the book. The heart of the … Continue reading →

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The Bishops are Seeking Leverage

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

In his Christian Chaos: Revolutionizing the Congregation Tom Bandy says, The primary link between congregation and denomination and denomination is pastoral relations, the key membership of the pastor is with the denominational judicatory, and the most powerful positions in congregation … Continue reading →

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Churches that “Get it”

Posted on April 29, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

Todd Rhoades at Monday Morning Insight did a post early in April on “10 Observations from Churches Who ‘Get It.’” As a pastor who would like to describe my congregation’s as “getting it,” I’m afraid we don’t always measure up … Continue reading →

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Church Planting publication

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

If you’re a church planter – or a leader of a church that is engaging culture and trying to reach people for Jesus – you need to check out Cutting Edge put out by the Association of Vineyard Churches USA. … Continue reading →

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On Not Knowing What We’re Doing…

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

If you’ve been following my posts over the past year, you’ll know that the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is undergoing a major change initiative. The major impetus for this change – in personal terms – is … Continue reading →

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Assessing Changes in the Texas Annual Conference

Posted on March 7, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

Bishop Huie, Rick Goodrich, and District Superintendent Jerry Neff led the 2 hour meeting in Longview yesterday. This meeting was mandated last year as a way of assessing the changed in the Conference. You can find a power point version … Continue reading →

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Church Transformation

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Richard Heyduck

We’ve spent the last three days listening to Dave Herman, a pastor from Florida and a representative of DNA Coaching, as he taught on church transformation. The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is in the beginning stages … Continue reading →

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