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Experience

Walk-in Song

At Life.Church, we play a secular song live each week before the service as the countdown is going and people are walking to their seats. This song is called the "Walk-in Song" and is a tool we use to make first-time guests and others who don't know Christ feel comfortable at church. In this video,...

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Leadership

Keeping Things in Perspective

While uneducated or cruel critics can be distracting, try to keep things in perspective. Where I live, Christians are rarely in danger for being Christians. Countless believers have suffered gravely for their faith in Christ. If all we have to do is endure a few people complaining, blogging, or...

In Step

Training: Walking In Step

Here are some next steps and tips for you to get started with In Step. If you haven't already, join our folder on Dropbox. You will receive an email to start that easy process. View our schedule to see upcoming topics and series. Join the community , a group of pastors and leaders...

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Messages

Message Support: I'm In

It’s not enough to just show up at church. Our hearts long for more than that. We want to be needed. We want to be known. We want to have purpose and know that we make a difference. This series is an invitation for people to drive deep roots into our church, show them the difference they can make,...

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Leadership

Church in the Wild

Join Carl Lentz , Lead Pastor of Hillsong NYC as he discusses how churches can empower their congregation to go out into their daily lives and be the hands, feet and voice of Jesus in al l spheres and levels of society. Special thanks to our partner, Hillsong Leadership Network , f...

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Kids

Design Philosophy in Kids Ministry

Our design philosophy for our children's classrooms is simple: keep it simple. We want parents to feel good about leaving their children with us for an hour, and that means rooms that are...

Leadership

Leading in the Right Role

Before you step up to speak, before you have a developmental conversation, and before you cast vision, there’s one thing you have to do first. You need to clearly define the purpose. There are three important things to consider to define your purpose: • What you want people to kno...

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Leadership

Creating Momentum in Your Church

Have you ever felt like every Sunday was the same as the Sunday before it? That your ministry had become stagnant? We've all been there, and there's one thing we can cultivate to push through it: momentum. In this three-part series, we'll here what momentum is, how it helps you change and grow, a...

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Messages

Message Support: "Hope in Action"

Hope will point you in the right direction, but there’s only one way to reach your goal. This message from Pastor Tome Dawson will help attenders learn what happens when we combine our dreams with dedication. This message uses the story of Nehemiah to illustrate three key points of achieving our ho...

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Church Metrics

Tracking Data in Your Church

When you have the right data in your hands, your team is equipped to prayerfully make smarter ministry choices. Thanks to Church Metrics, getting a bird's eye view of what's going on in your church is easier than ever. Learn as Life.Church Tulsa Area Pastor Tome Dawson shares how you can use Churc...

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Leadership

Leading in a Multicultural World

Leadership thought leader Sam Collier, says that the rise in multiculturalism around the globe necessitates a new kind of leadership. In this talk, he identifies the fears and challenges associated with multicultural leadership and outlines practical ways leaders can move toward a multicultural fut...

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Church Metrics

Tutorial: Creating Events in Church Metrics

Church Metrics allows you to track all the data that's important to your church. Normally, you set up recurring service times in the tool and track numbers like attendance or baptisms that are connected to that service. With the "Events" function, you can create special service times and track da...

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Messages

Message Support: Hope in the Dark

Can God be good when life isn't? This series follows the theme of Craig Groeschel’s book Hope in the Dark , but here, Craig preaches specifically from the book of Habakkuk. The messages in the series show your attenders how they can cling to God even when their circumstances are overwhelming....

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Leadership

Pastoring the Marriages in Your Congregation

Join Julie & Terry Scott, Hillsong Hills Campus Pastoral Care, as they discuss the methods and tools —pre - marriage courses to crisis counseling— Hillsong uses to ensure our congregation’s marriages flourish. Special thanks to our partner, Hillsong Leadership Network , for pro...

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Church Metrics

Obeying God in Spite of the Data

What we've learned: "Data has a seat at the table"—it's something we say a lot here at Life.Church. The distinction is that even though we place a high value on collecting and analyzing data (that's why we created Church Metrics , after all), it still only has one seat at our decision-...

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Creative

The First Step in Creating Your Brand

A church should definitely think about its brand—you represent some version of yourself to the world whether it's intentional or not. This first step is a great way to get started, and it doesn't cost a thing....

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Kids

Setting Capacity and Leader Ratios in LifeKids

Excellence—it guides everything we do at LifeKids. It’s why we created the Excellence Walk Checklist . It’s why we carefully craft our curriculum. It’s why we never settle for “good enough.” And that includes our capacity for kids rooms. We get a lot of questions about how we determine leade...

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Volunteers

Holiday Snacks & Feeling Comfortable in Church

Pastor Tome Dawson from the Life.Church South Tulsa campus shares some of his best tips for creating a welcoming environment for attenders during the holiday season. Here, he addresses Christmas, but the concepts apply to Easter or other special services, too....

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Worship

Fully Devoted: Recording Live or in the Studio

What's the purpose of your project? It's a simple question, but it will help guide the creation of any new asset you're creating for your ministry. When it came to recording "Fully Devoted" to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of Life.Church, we knew that the purpose could be better served by recor...

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Worship

Worship Recording Tips: Building the Plane in the Air

For our first live-recording project, we had to learn a few things as we went. One was that live recordings aren't as easily controlled as studio recordings, so we had to go back and do a little post-production polishing. We learned a lot from other ministries like Elevation Church that have gone b...

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