The momentum shift. In my twenty-one years of leading the same church, I’ve experienced it more times than I’d like to admit. Attendance was climbing. Salvations and baptisms were happening. People were growing in their faith and engaging in the mission. First time guests were rolling in. Celebration and worship was spontaneous and abundant. All of this, not only in the spring and fall seasons of the year, but through the summer and winter months, too!
But, then one day I noticed a different feeling in the air; I could tell momentum was slowing or had disappeared. The excitement was gone. A few weeks went by without a salvation or baptism. A key family or two, even close friends, suddenly left the church without explaining the reason. They didn’t even say goodbye! Others complained or murmured about things that wouldn’t have mattered to them a few months earlier.
During such times, leaders often wonder what happened. Why it happened. Most importantly we wonder how can we “get things moving” again? We are tempted to resign, believing God is finished with us at that church; but maybe He’s not.
Sometimes we need to look under the hood and see what happened to the power. Here are three steps that have proven helpful to me in regaining lost momentum. Read More
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