The One Thing

Brian Vaatstra, church revitalisation

Jon Rumble from Providence Church in Perth has done a re-set on his staff meetings.

Are your staff meetings on auto-pilot?

Move from rosters to teams within your kids ministry.

How does your church or ministry measure? Have you ever considered using OKRs?

What is your church doing for Easter 2021?

How much should we talk about hell in our churches? What common myths do churches believe about winning new people to faith?

How to reflect deeply on a significant event for yourself or a ministry worker.

Are you re-launching small groups for 2021? What should you do if you don't have enough leaders? Featuring Richard Sweatman's six errors to avoid.

Are you an overworker or an underworker in ministry? Derek and Maddy discuss workaholism and hyper-Calvinism.

1 - Ensure you’re in a healthy place, 2 - Be deliberate about what you’re doing, 3 - Build the church calendar around mission, 4 - Lead through others, 5 - Get a coach.

Simon Sinek, Patrick Lencioni and John Doerr have all written secular books with huge application to ministry. Fill your stocking with these 3 resources.

"I'm starting to realise that unless we getting that leading-through-leaders' model happening well I'm going to become the blockage."

“Everyone said that church planting is going to be the hardest thing you’ll ever do, and there’s some truth to that, but it wasn’t like that for us, it was actually joyfully wonderful” (Matt)

“Everyone said that church planting is going to be the hardest thing you’ll ever do, and there’s some truth to that, but it wasn’t like that for us, it was actually joyfully wonderful” (Matt)

What motivates a church planter in the first place? What did he learn along the way? What's the greatest joy and hardship of church planting? 10 years ago Toby Neal and his team planted Vine Church in Surry Hills.

"I've spent 15 years trying to deal with the disasters that come for the employer or the employee when people haven't got this right." Al Stewart joins Scott Sanders and Madeleine Galea on The One Thing podcast to discuss how to avoid hiring the wrong person in your church.

Would a 360 review be a helpful step for your leadership? Listen to this episode of The One Thing podcast with Derek Hanna and Madeleine Galea or go straight to genevapush.com/360.

Is your church experiencing any of these? Losing clarity about purpose, rosters rather than teams, inability to designate significant areas of responsibility, multiplying programs, tending towards complexity over time, foggy discipleship pathways, weak mission planning and reflection on those plans.

What are the common pitfalls for new Australian churches? Australia needs new churches and we're hoping these observations will help those new churches to start on the right foot. Listen to the newest episode The One Thing podcast.

Do a few things well this Christmas. Covid restrictions mean that more of your church may be around for Christmas this year. Join seasoned church planter Craig Tucker as he discusses what he's changed his mind about regarding church Christmas and how Scots Church Sydney are changing it up this year.

Do a few things well this Christmas. Covid restrictions mean that more of your church may be around for Christmas this year. Join seasoned church planter Craig Tucker as he discusses what he's changed his mind about regarding church Christmas and how Scots Church Sydney are changing it up this year.

Knowing your strengths assesses you on 7 core competencies, including spiritual vibrancy, theological drive, emotional intelligence, gospel vision, courageous shepherding, evangelistic urgency and effective overseeing.

Idiographic and nomothetic staffing? Staffing for purposes vs staffing for demographics? This week’s The One Thing episode deals with five staffing guidelines, cultural clericalism resulting from over-staffing, ID real staffing ratios and city vs rural staffing.

Idiographic and nomothetic staffing? Staffing for purposes vs staffing for demographics? This week’s The One Thing episode deals with five staffing guidelines, cultural clericalism resulting from over-staffing, ID real staffing ratios and city vs rural staffing.