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I recently had an opportunity to talk with Jon and Dave Ferguson about their new book Finding Your Way Back to God: 5 Awakenings to Your New Life.  I think…

Last week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Warren Bird and Ryan Hartwig and discuss their new book on collaborative church leadership.  I think you’ll enjoy this quick,…

In this episode Nils Smith and Jay Kranda talk about their experience with Google+ and texting. [Listen/Download MP3 audio] Show Notes for Social Media Church Episode 116 » * Audio…

By Warren Bird If you’ve ever used the words decentralization, knowledge worker, management by objectives, or privatization, you’ve been influenced by Peter Drucker, who coined all of them – and…

If it’s true that teamwork makes the dream work, why do groups that come together in our churches to accomplish Kingdom tasks too often experience dismal results? Too much of…

In this episode Nils Smith and Jay Kranda talk with Ben Farr of Saddleback Church about user experience and what church leaders should be doing differently with technology. [Listen/Download MP3…

By Warren Bird Pastor Will Rambo could only imagine all the negatives that would come from implementing a performance bonus structure for the staff of The Orchard in Tupelo, MS,…

Jay and Nils are joined by Kenny Jahng again in this episode as they pick Kenny’s brain on the value of Press Releases in your Social Media strategy. Traditional media…

In recent years I have visited China’s largest-attendance church, and reported on the nation’s explosive growth of Christianity by blogs and tweeted articles, the most relevant here, here , and here. Christian…

In this conversation Nils and Jay are joined by Liquid Church’s Church Online Pastor, Kenny Jahng. Kenny debates Jay on the real meaning of Online Church and we discuss the…

This week on the Social Media Church podcast Nils Smith and Jay Kranda talk with Nick Ovalle about Video Tips & Tricks. Nick Ovalle serves as the Social Media Manager…

  by Warren Bird   Students and leaders at a NewThing conference hold up their “dream napkin” asking Jesus to use them to start new movements of reproducing churches dedicated…

My good friend, Tim Stevens, just wrote a new book that I commend: Fairness Is Overrated: And 51 Other Leadership Principles to Revolutionize Your Workplace. He writes from the wisdom…

This week on the Social Media Church podcast Nils Smith and Jay Kranda talk about Hashtags. [Listen/Download MP3 audio] Show Notes for Social Media Church Episode 111 » * Audio…

In this episode DJ Chuang reflects on the past 108 episodes and passes the baton to the new host of the Social Media Church Podcast, Nils Smith! DJ shares some…

By Warren Bird                       I recently took a survey that made this amazing claim: “Given that over 95% of people in…

 by Warren Bird   “As the Baby Boomer generation (born 1946-1964) passes on, megachurches are also dying off.” I see statements like that often in the public media, but all…

In this previously recorded podcast, you will hear Wayne Smith interview Toby Slough, founding pastor of Cross Timbers Church in Argyle, TX, with over 4,000 in weekly attendance, discuss some key insights…

The number of very large churches continues to increase, as our graphic dramatically illustrates. And within that group, the biggest churches continue to get bigger. In the past I’ve written…

If you do an internet search for

Megachurches are not a creation of the United States. There are far more megachurches (defined as 2,000 or more in weekend worship attendance) outside North America than inside it, as my global megachurches page shows. . . .

At Easter, Christmas and other big days when church attendances surge, newspapers like to raise the question of which churches are the biggest. Many also try to name which church was the first megachurch

Leadership Network would not be the same–in fact, might not exist at all-were it not for Peter Drucker. Before Bob Buford and Fred Smith Jr. co-founded Leadership Network in 1984,…