by Bill Wilson | Oct 17, 2017 | Opinion
When a congregation wants to become or remain healthy, one of the key questions it asks has to do with the balance between its internal and external focus. One excellent congregational exercise to help with this question is to gather a group in a large room. On one...
by Bill Wilson | Sep 15, 2017 | Opinion
Some call it a battle. Others a wrestling match. Let’s go with something a bit less confrontational and call it a challenge that will impact whether or not your church will survive. I’m describing one of the foundational polarities every church must...
by Bill Wilson | Aug 24, 2017 | Opinion
A minister asked me during a recent conversation what I thought were the major traps that most often snared ministers when they moved to a new congregation. Healthy churches and ministers pay attention to potential trouble spots and act in a proactive way to avoid...
by Bill Wilson | Jul 18, 2017 | Opinion
One of the pressing concerns of 21st-century individual and congregational spiritual life is the question of depth. To be blunt, there isn’t much. Study after study has revealed the sad truth that much of what we call faith and commitment is actually a thin...
by Bill Wilson | Jun 21, 2017 | Opinion
My colleague Bob Dale often asks me a simple question. “Bill, what are we hearing out there in the churches?” He knows that every week members of our Center for Healthy Churches’ team are fanning out across the country to work in dozens of churches...
