This Summer - Talk About What You're Already Doing Online
by Kyle Ranson on May 17, 2023 4:54:09 PM
Kyle Ranson, Experience Team Director, Crossroad Church Kyle has been around Crossroads for over a decade, filling a variety of roles, including teaching pastor and leading the Experience Team - the group that creates videos, articles, music, and more.
Closing the Alignment Gap on Your Lead Team
by Nathan Artt on May 15, 2023 4:21:31 PM
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5 Strategies to Beat the Summer Slump and Engage Your Church Community
by Nathan Artt on May 10, 2023 2:51:08 PM
Summer can be a challenging time for churches to maintain momentum, especially as people have many competing activities such as sports, vacations, and nice weather. However, there are still many opportunities for the Church to engage people through the digital platform beyond the Sund …
Measuring Impact: Moving from Numbers to Stories
by Nathan Artt on Apr 17, 2023 4:17:41 PM
This blog was originally written by Amber Smart and featured on the Smart Metrix blog: More than a Wish and Prayer: How Data and Curiosity Can Find Your Church’s Momentum Amber Smart is the founder of the 153 Effect and SmartMetrix. Amber also created the data strategy and formed the …
The Fundamentals About Digital Engagement You Didn’t Learn In Seminary
by Alan George on Mar 29, 2023 12:45:18 PM
Alan George served as the former Church Online Pastor at Life.Church. He currently partners with churches and leaders to help them identify how they can leverage technology to further the Gospel and reach people like never before. If you feel woefully underprepared for this current se …
The Purpose of Content
by Nathan Artt on Mar 6, 2023 1:15:44 PM
For many years now, the strategy to engage people through the local church was built around the invitation to a church building. The attractional model of church, which reached so many people, was built on the idea that if we could get people into a church environment that is nothing …
Church Clarity in 2023
by Nathan Artt on Jan 31, 2023 1:18:05 PM
You’ve heard this before: Covid did not change anything, but rather accelerated a change that was already in place. In short, the past few years condensed 20 years of change into a 2-3 year period. And here we are in 2023, facing a myriad of challenges: Rising interest rates, increasi …
Five Questions That Every Church Should Answer About Digital
by Darin Yates on Oct 12, 2022 10:20:56 AM
Darin Yates has been the Executive Pastor at Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, OH for the past 20 years. Crossroads has consistently been one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in America and is seen as an innovator in digital ministry. Crossroads has a thriving online communi …
The Real Purpose of the Online Church
by Nathan Artt on Sep 19, 2022 10:50:19 PM
In last week’s blog, Why People Aren’t Coming to Church, we introduced the idea of Differentiated Value Propositions: something that sets an offering apart from other internal or external offerings. In order to understand how to create an in-person experience that people would want to …
Why People Aren’t “Coming” Back to Church
by Nathan Artt on Sep 14, 2022 7:26:21 PM
While the world around us has changed, a lot of the conversations in the Church still center around in-person attendance. We’ve touched on this in previous posts as well as our case study: Target Corp and the Flexible Church, but the reason all of our metrics in the Church are based a …