Church Talk

Hebrews 3:13 reminds us to encourage one-another daily. Daily. Meaning every day. But when was the last time someone from your church picked up the phone and called you just to ask how they could pray for you? Or how they could help you in your spiritual walk? In this episode, Drs. Kris and Bill de-mystify the encouragement vacuum to help you and your congregation move from apathy to caring for one-another.

For the church, the holy-day season can also be the most exhausting, stressful, push-push-push seasons of the year. Indeed, many church leaders find themselves hitting the wall about this time of the year and frankly don't know where to turn. In this episode, Drs. Bill and Kris provide real-world tips on more than just surviving Christmas – you really can thrive and find refreshment.

The Christmas season typically has the highest attended worship services of the year ... especially Christmas Eve. But what comes after Christmas? The two lowest attended services of the year. It doesn't have to be that way. In this episode, Drs. Bill and Kris offer suggestions for how to carry your attendance from one season to the next. Can we say "Hand-offs"?

Is your church's website up-to-snuff? Is it interactive? Are lives being changed because of your online ministry? Are your members and guests and general web-surfers hitting your site regularly? If not, then this is the episode for you. Drs. Kris and Bill take on the Internet Beast and offer tips and tools to tame and harness it for effective ministry in your setting.

What's it take to "do" relevant, practical, not-embarrassing evangelism for the rank and file Christian today? It's not about scripts or quoting scripture or arguing or convincing. Evangelism that works begins with your faith story, and specifically with your relationship with Jesus. In this episode, Drs. Bill and Kris offer a proven process for helping churched folks find ways to articulate their personal faith without fear.

In most congregations, the rarest participant is a young male. In some churches, these are almost an endangered species, if it isn't extinct already. However, it's not that guys don't have a spiritual side to them ... they do. But there are a number of reasons why they eschew church. In this episode, Drs. Bill and Kris explore why men don't do church and what to do about it.

Christmas Eve worship services are the only socially acceptable church services that an unchurched person can attend – attending any other service invites derision from co-workers, friends, and even family. This is also the one time during the year when most churches can count on a significant increase in first-time guest visitation. How will you capitalize on it this year? In this episode, Drs. Bill and Kris offer concrete advice on how to make the most of this important service.

It's nearly that time again. There's only two months until Christmas and if you haven't got your Advent planned, it's time to get into gear. Getting into the holy-day spirit early so you can get your plans made before it's too late, Drs. Bill and Kris offer this year's checklist to get you ready for what's to come.

Evangelism. It's one of the most maligned, misunderstood, and un-practiced spiritual habit in the church today. In this episode, Drs. Kris and Bill introduce the Ten A's of Evangelism in an effort to keep it simple.

It's not now, nor has it ever been, the church's job to make disciples out of children. From the beginning, that task has fallen to the parents. However, with fewer adults raised in the church, how to raise up the kids to be faithful followers of Jesus Christ is fast becoming a lost art. In this episode, Drs. Kris and Bill offer specific tips and tools for helping your church leaders train parents to disciple their children.