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Rebuild the Wineskin (opens the original)
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ShareI’ve got an exercise for you today to help build up the generosity culture in your church.Based on: “New Wine, Old Wineskins, and the Giving Culture You Actually Have” by Jim Sheppard - Church Leader Insider, Aug 2026Find it here: https://churchleaderinsider.substack.com/p/new-wine-old-wineskins-and-the-givingSTAFF EXERCISERebuilding
Ministry Momentum Mentor: The AI Issue · Five Signals From the Conversation Shaping How Your Church Uses These Tools (opens the original)
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40% Better. 3% Adoption. Which Side of That Gap Is Your Church On?AI tools are changing every day, and the dust-ups, hubbub, critiques, and praises are coming at church leaders just as fast. I don’t agree with all the views below, but they are the ones shaping the conversation right now around church leadership, technology, and trust.Consider this week’s issue a way for your team to read, discuss, and apply it to their own work. The five items below span the full range of the current debate, fro
52 Percent: The Number That Just Made Your Tuesday Morning Bible Study Obsolete (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowMy mentor, Lyle Schaller, said fifty years ago that the church still hadn’t adapted to the car. He meant our buildings, our programs, and our teams were still designed with a pre-automobile mindset. I think the church has mostly caught up on that one.But what else have we ignored? This week’s brief is five signals — on families, classrooms, kids, wages, and where people are actually moving — that suggest our operating assumptions
What Do a Burned-Out Executive, a Broken Board Budget, and a Silent Estrangement Have in Common? (opens the original)
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PASTOR’S DIGITAL BRIEFFive items worth five minutes — chosen because they change something, not because they’re new.Subscribe nowThis week, a hedge-fund vice president paid $4,000 to lie on a floor in the Hudson Valley and admit his life felt hollow. He could have walked into almost any church in America for free.Underneath this week’s stories is one thread: peop
America Got Rich, But Sad - Ministry Momentum Mentor (opens the original)
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And don’t miss the FIND section at the endShareFortune’s piece on economist Sam Peltzman’s happiness research lands right in our lane. Peltzman has tracked the same “are you happy?” question since 1972, and in
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