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https://youtu.be/fC67GSUhE9Q?si=j8IilrPTibQ5Zl18 If there’s one thing church leaders should be obsessed with, it’s the front door. In this special compilation episode, we've pulled together four conversations from leading churches and ministry organizations that are seeing success in helping first-time guests move from curious visitors to fully engaged disciples. The challenge facing...

Your people aren’t broken. Here’s what’s really going on. Three weeks after I got my driver’s license, I put my car in a ditch. This was back when you could walk into the licensing office on your sixteenth birthday, get a learner’s permit, and … within a few weeks …...

Picture this. It's the year 2000, and a psychology lab at Cornell University is about to ruin a college student's morning. A researcher hands an undergrad a t-shirt and asks them to put it on. The student unfolds it and sees the face staring back at them: Barry Manilow. Not...

Welcome back to another episode of the unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Jeremy Baker, Lead Pastor of Elevate Life Church in Connecticut. In just over three years, Elevate Life has grown from 70 people to more than 2,000 weekly attendees, becoming one of the fastest-growing churches in the country—especially...

If part one made you curious, this is where things get practical. Because talking about why At the Movies works is the easy part. The real tension shows up the moment you ask, “Alright… but how do we actually run this without turning our church into a cineplex?” Here’s the...

I was hooked on The Matrix from the first green line of code pure Gen-X dopamine. Angsty dystopia? Check. Long leather coats? Check. Philosophy, you pretend to understand? Double check. A savior with a tragic middle-part haircut? Inject it straight into my veins. I convinced my relatively new wife, Christine,...

Welcome back to another episode of the unSeminary podcast. We’re talking with John Sellers, Executive Pastor of Locations and a location pastor at Journey Church in Central Florida. Journey is one of the fastest-growing churches in the country, with a thriving online community, three campuses, and a fourth location on...

Let’s start with a confession. I’ve misdiagnosed “dead” more times than I care to admit…more than a coroner in a zombie movie marathon. I have this bad habit of declaring the demise of trends that are, in fact, quietly entering their prime. I thought podcasts were “saturated” back in 2013...