Eight Common Characteristics of Successful Church Revitalizations – Revitalize & Replant #012

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While numbers often show revitalization progress, sometimes there are more subtle indicators that your church is revitalizing. Today, we cover eight of those markers.

Today’s Listener Question:

FROM JARED

I’m currently in the midst of a revitalization effort at the church I pastor here in Alabama. Is there any way to know if we’re making progress other than just looking at changes to the raw numbers?

Episode Highlights:

• Every church has key lay leaders who influence the people.
• Church revitalization is not a human-centric effort.
• The worship time is often a sacred cow in churches.
• You have to continually remind church members of the vision of a church—even to redundancy.
• If you want to lead real change in a church, you have to convey a sense of urgency.

The eight successful characteristics we cover are:

1. The pastor formed an alliance of key influencers in the church
2. The influencers made a commitment to pray daily for revitalization
3. The church made a commitment to look like the community
4. The church boldly confronted the issue of sacred cows
5. Leadership developed a clear and compelling vision
6. Leadership communicated a sense of urgency
7. The pastor was willing to endure a season of intense criticism
8. The leadership of the church was willing to let go of members

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