by Nick Blevins | Mar 19, 2012 | Strategy
Church growth barriers are commonly talked about in the local church and church leaders are always looking for how to overcome them. Usually however, we don't start looking until we have hit one and plateaued. In this post, I'll share my thoughts on the family...
by Nick Blevins | Feb 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
What is the Orange Strategy? That's the question I hope to answer in this post, but it is a simple one and a complex one at the same time. Put simply, the Orange strategy is all about churches partnering with parents to pass the faith on to the next generation. It's...
by Nick Blevins | Dec 14, 2011 | Leadership, Popular
Leadership development is extremely important in churches, but often times it doesn't receive the time, attention, budget and focus that it warrants. There are numerous reasons for that, but I think one of the big reasons is we simply don't know what to do. What are...
by Nick Blevins | Aug 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Part of thinking Orange is recognizing that parents are the primary spiritual leaders of their children and the church's job is to partner with them and help them thrive in that role. Anyone who has been around the church long enough knows that the family's influence...
by Nick Blevins | Aug 3, 2011 | Strategy
In ministry, it's important to plan for growth to allow growth. In this post, I'll share 7 questions to help you evaluate your church programming. Many churches are defined by their programming. It's easy to allow programs to define the church rather than the mission,...
by Nick Blevins | Nov 9, 2010 | Family Ministry
At Community Christian Church we have used Orange curriculum in children's ministry since before we officially launched the church in 2006. I think it's the best children's ministry curriculum and that, of course, is why we use it. I was familiar with their strategy,...
by Nick Blevins | May 5, 2010 | Strategy
In this post, I'll share some of what Andy Stanley talked about in Session 2 of the 2010 Drive Conference about their worship service planning process, which they refer to as Rules of Engagement. Here were my takeaways from the session, which was extremely helpful and...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 31, 2010 | Faith
For a while now I have wanted to write about this topic of changing church and whether Christians should or shouldn't. People change churches all the time, for numerous reasons. Some valid, some not. I believe one of the biggest problems in the church today is that...
