Don’t Compare Yourself to Others

I wrote about this topic a while back and the same conversation came up with a church planting brother the other day so I think it’s worth mentioning again.

It is so easy to compare ourselves to another church or a church leader or church planter. We look at others and benchmark our success (or failures) by what they have achieved. Churches try to duplicate other churches or some of us attempt to be the clone of Mark Driscoll, Craig Groeschel, or David Crowder (goatee and all). But what works for them isn’t going to work for us - not to mention that God has called us to be ourselves in the situation He has given us.

God has uniquely made you. Celebrate it. Live it out loud!

We can learn from others but the best thing we can do for ourselves, our team, and our organization is to be true to who we’re called to be or the vision we have been given…not someone else’s.

April 15, 2008 · Filed Under Church Branding, Church Leadership, Church Ministries, Church Planting, Innovative Churches

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Fighting the Church Burnout Epidemic

Anne Jackson is writing a book about church burnout called Mad Church Disease.

She’s asking for those of us in the church to take a survey about it for the book. I think the results will be amazingly helpful. Take some time to complete the survey.

For some background on Anne, check out her bio page that lists a number of articles she’s written.

July 3, 2007 · Filed Under Church Leadership, Innovative Churches, Web 2.0

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Story: Pastor is making MySpace his own

How Robert Emmitt of San Antonio’s Community Bible Church, one of the fastest growing churches in America (No. 10), is using MySpace. Story here.

November 20, 2006 · Filed Under Innovative Churches, Web 2.0

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Take a Tour of the Top 25 Fastest Growing Churches

Here’s a map showing the top 25 fastest growing churches in America, by Church Growth Today (full PDF list of top 100 here):

This map is interactive, scroll over the red balloons to see the churches.


Get the widescreen version here.

Note: Church locations are approximate to the city they are located in.

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