Big Idea Number 2 on Church Growth:
A Big Day builds momentum in your church by propelling you to the next level of growth.
As your people get involved, the community is touched, growth barriers are b...
Pastor Matt Sturdevant, a Titanium Coaching member who leads Hope Church in Fort Worth, TX, understands that most Christians desperately want to make a difference, but simply don’t know how.
Matt fel...
How healthy is your church?
And how can you tell?
God designed all the parts of the body – both the church body and the physical body – to work together and function best through well-developed syst...
In the weeks leading up to a past Easter, Titanium member Bob Kistemaker took initiative at New Life Church in Lakewood, Ohio to organize not just one, but two evangelism training events.
These semin...
Big Idea #1 on Church Growth:
Plan and execute a Big Day to reach more people for Christ.
A Big Day is an all-out push toward a single Sunday to break the next growth barrier and reach as many people ...
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What if you could ignite an evangelistic revolution where evangelism happens every Sunday and your church doubles every year?
It's possible, when you have an effective evangelism system!
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"God has allowed you to walk the path you’ve walked for a reason. He has given you your story. Now, give it back to him. Commit it to him and ask him to use it to touch the family, friends, coworkers ...
"The number one reason people attend church for the first time—that is, the number one reason people step into an environment where they can hear the truth about Jesus proclaimed—is because someone th...
"There’s nothing to be scared of. In fact, God has uniquely positioned you to influence the people in your life for him. And he has only one requirement you have to meet in order to qualify. You simpl...
Big Idea #4 from Understanding Church Growth:
Of the three kinds of church growth, conversion growth should be your goal.
The three kinds of church growth are: biological, transfer and conversion. Conve...
As pastors, we can be frustrated and saddened when we see our church members struggling to share their testimonies, or when our attendance numbers aren't growing with new believers.
What if there's a...
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Meet Dr. Nelson Searcy
Nelson Searcy is the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. By God’s grace, he identified and developed the Eight Systems of a Healthy Church® that he has used to coach over 5,000 churches in the US and around the world to adapt those eight systems to their unique ministry fields, resulting in great health and growth.
Nelson regularly coaches pastors online and in-person through the Church Leader Insights and Renegade Pastors Network ministries that he founded. He also leads several annual pastor in-person conferences and online training events. In ministry for more than 25 years, Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.”
He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 20+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life and Ministry, The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests Into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church. Nelson is the recipient of the prestigious Donald A. McGavran Award for Outstanding Leadership in Great Commission Research.
He is a longtime student of church history, especially mastering the areas of evangelism and church growth. He divides his time between NYC and South Florida. He battled Stage 4 cancer and has been cancer-free since 2018, praise God! He has an amazing wife, Kelley, and a teenage son, Alexander, who continues to grow in so many ways.
