{"id":24994,"date":"2017-07-04T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=24994"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:45:03","slug":"voices-signs-your-church-is-stalling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2017\/07\/04\/voices-signs-your-church-is-stalling-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: Signs Your Church Is Stalling Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every <strong>ministry<\/strong>, every <strong>church<\/strong> should be growing, drawing people to faith in Jesus Christ and serving more and more people. When <strong>growth<\/strong> isn&#8217;t happening, it&#8217;s easy to blame factors outside of leadership&#8217;s control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, often the lack of growth is due to something that the pastor or executive director does have control or influence over. Leaders need to ask themselves if they aren&#8217;t responsible for the lack of growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carey Nieuwhof has an <a href=\"http:\/\/careynieuwhof.com\/9-signs-your-church-is-stalling-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excellent post<\/a>&nbsp;that I highly recommend written specifically for pastors, but which applies to all ministry leaders. The article lists possible reasons for the poor results, and all of them are controllable by the leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My own post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2011\/09\/19\/is-your-ministry-near-its-best-before-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is your ministry near its &#8220;Best before&#8221; date?<\/a> has additional leading indicators of organizational <strong>decline<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The longer you wait to address a decline, especially once you are clearly in a decline, the fewer the options you will have to turn it around. If your ministry is experiencing any of the conditions listed in either post, now is the time to take action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article lists possible reasons for poor growth results for churches and ministries, and all of them are controllable by the leader. <a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2017\/07\/04\/voices-signs-your-church-is-stalling-out\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"freeimages.com\/Christopher Bruno","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,344],"tags":[11,53,79],"series":[],"class_list":["post-24994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership-organizational","category-voices","tag-church","tag-evaluation","tag-organizational-evaluation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24994"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=24994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}