How One Church Almost Died Because the Pastor Did Everything. Why Building Ministry Teams is so Important. Stop doing it all. Here three reason to quit carrying all the load and 6 steps to build a team.

Resources Mentioned: Getting Started with Building Ministry Teams- How to Make Local Church Teamwork a Reality- • Getting Started with Building Ministr...

Your local church environment can be a fertile environment or it can be like the classic stony ground. Folks can come and take root or they can bounce away into the wind. Here are 19 different stupid things that I overlooked as a senior pastor.

Resources Mentioned- Contact Mike at info@reachkeep.com

Coaching information available at www.reachkeep.com/coach

How to Create Fill-in-the-Blank Sermon Notes for Your Congregation.

Seven Samples- Preaching Helps- https://youtu.be/DQh-qEgJQ3k

Creating Fill-in-the-Blank Sermon Notes- Outlines for the Congregation -

A Better Church Bulletin- https://youtu.be/iM0tXOpOcWk

In the ministry, people vote with their feet. There are many, many things that can cause a person to walk away. There are also some simple things that can be done to help people "buy in" to your church. In this episode we cover three ares that can make or break your "voter turnout." We also give several practical hands-on things that pastor can implement right now,.

Resources Mentioned:

Rescuing an Almost Closed Church- How Sunday Prep Differs from Sermon Prep- Eric Ross Interview- • Rescuing an Almost Closed Church- How...

Dying Churches- A Missing Ingredient to Keep the Grim Reaper at Bay- Sermon Prep vs. Sunday Prep- • Dying Churches- A Missing Ingredient ...

Vibrant or Non Vibrant? Four Things to Do IN YOUR SERMON to Create Engagement and Participation- • Vibrant or Non Vibrant? Four Things t...

Effective Church Meetings- A Busy Pastor's Guide to Effective Meetings- • A Busy Pastor's Guide to Effective Me...

Contact Mike- Schedule a FREE consulting call- https://calendly.com/reachkeep/coachi...

Creating a participation environment come from a well thought out sermon. Here are four things a pastor can do in his sermon that will demonstrate that the church is anticipating participation. Resources Mentioned: Rescuing an Almost Closed Church- How Sunday Prep Differs from Sermon Prep- Eric Ross Interview • Rescuing an Almost Closed Church-

https://youtu.be/12iLhIDnQr4&list=UULFxpwxwJgk5qVyBJ9J9t7bfQ

Dying Churches- A Missing Ingredient to Keep the Grim Reaper at Bay- Sermon Prep vs. Sunday Prep-

https://youtu.be/ytkTfwhHB9g?si=Sd6uAGXva_YOFdoz

Dying churches are everywhere. Many of them are missing a key ingredient. They have sound doctrine, good music and fine people, but they have fallen prey to "regularism." The magnetism of "preparation" has been neglected. Learn 7 great benefits of a "preparation environment" in this short and simple episode.

Resources Mentioned: Rescuing an Almost Closed Church- How Sunday Prep Differs from Sermon Prep- Eric Ross Interview • Rescuing an Almost Closed Church- How... &list=UULFxpwxwJgk5qVyBJ9J9t7bfQ

The church was down to about 4 people. It was just about closed. Here is the story and some of the techniques that turned things around.

There is great power in a church that has strong and healthy relationships. But...it doesn't come by accident. Learn several practical ways your local church have be a haven of beautiful one-on-one relationships.

Resources Mentioned: Nine Relationship Things- www.reachkeep.com/nine

Mike's Address- info@reachkeep.com

Yes, you need to know your doctrine and your Bible. But there is more! Yes much more! Some church leaders can tend to miss the fact that they need to be "people smart" as well. In this episode, you will discover several practical tips to help your church folks to be relationally savvy!

Resource mentioned:

Nine Ideas to help develop one-on-one relationships. http://www.reachkeep.com/nine