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Three Questions for Worship Pastors
At first glance, it seems like a Worship Pastor's main priority is to sing. While singing is the medium, pastoring is the goal. Worship Pastors are responsible for one of the most real, vulnerable, spiritual parts of a church experience—when we tell God how wonderful He is and let him minister to...
Messages
Message Support: The Gift
Series Length: 3 Weeks, with Week 3 serving as this year’s Christmas message. (not necessarily in this order) Week 1: Gold Week 2: Frankincense Week 3: Myrrh Description: A gift tells a story. We treasure hand-picked gifts from those we love. They’re valuable and important becaus...
Giving & Finance
Tips for Year-End Giving
It’s part of the natural rhythm of the year: giving tends to increase during the Christmas season. At Life.Church, we don’t take this for granted. We’re intentional about being humble and being good stewards of our resources, and that includes how we approach our tithing and giving communication at...
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Leadership
3 Steps for Engaging First-Time Guests
Every weekend, new people walk through the doors of your church looking for hope—and you can be intentional about helping them find it with these three tips. This video is a part of our Christmas Ministry Toolkit! To find the additional toolkit videos, go to out toolkit page ....
Communications
Communication: The Seven Touch Points
Sometimes people ask about our communication strategy for attracting new people to Life.Church and retaining current attenders. Because people are more distracted than ever and going to church less frequently, we want to get them excited about upcoming content so they’ll come (and bring a fr...
Giving & Finance
Leading New Believers Through Tithing
At Life.Church, we like to say we will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ. That might include things like using movies or popular TV commercials in church to illustrate truths from the Bible. As a result of being really focused about reaching the lost, we often have a lot o...
Operations
Tips for Christmas Services
Pastor Tome Dawson from the Life.Church South Tulsa campus shared some of his best tips for creating a welcoming environment for attenders during the holiday season. Here, he addresses Christmas, but everything would apply to Easter or other special services, too. Watch "God With Us" Message Suppor...
Online Ministry
Digital Watch Party Kit
Digital Watch Party Overview If planning Christmas online is new to your church, you may be encouraging your attenders to join you for an online experience in their home. Watch Parties can provide a sense of community around online content and help attenders feel connected in and to your chu...
Messages
Message Support: Travel Light
When the weight of the world is on your shoulders, it can feel like you’re going nowhere in a hurry. Shake off the burdens of stress, worry, and regret and find the freedom that comes when you Travel Light . Join us as we talk with Life.Church Campus Pastor Tim Knox about how you can use this...
Leadership
Why It's Important to Track Church Data
Here at Life.Church, we put a lot of stock in gathering and analyzing data throughout the organization. We use Church Metrics to keep track of all the data that's important to us—like salvations, baptisms, giving, and attendance. But what's more important than tracking data is the heart behind i...
Leadership
Strategic Disruptions
The longer you do ministry, the easier it becomes to minister from memory. You tend to do what you've always done. It is safe, comfortable, and convenient. To stay spiritually and creatively fresh, I suggest “strategic disruptions.” To me, this is intentionally disrupting the routine, mundan...
Operations
4 Steps for Creating an Easter Photo Op
Easter is one of the biggest opportunities of the year for your church to share Christ with your community. In addition to the Easter message, worship, and prayers, having a photo-op area is one extra touch that can provide value and community to attenders. When you invite people to take a picture...
Volunteers
Facebook Live: Finding and Retaining Volunteers
Volunteers are the heart of ministry—when they serve as leaders in our churches, we can accomplish so much more! Join us for this Facebook Live training as Life.Church team members Angie Ward and Brandon Livingood share tools for recruiting volunteers and training them to be all God has called the...
Missions
Creating an illumiNations Campaign Strategy for Your Church
Imagine if you tried to share the Gospel with someone, and they couldn’t understand any of the Bible. This is a reality for more than a billion people who still don’t have a complete Bible in their language. And more than 165 million people don’t have even one Bible verse in their language. L...
Leadership
Fasting From Church Stuff
For years I tried to learn from and be like other ministers. I listened to messages, attended conferences, and devoured every Christian book I could. Each time I met a new leader, I tried to become more like them. A few years ago though, God led me to do something very different. (I'm not ne...