The Church Revitalization Podcast

By The Malphurs Group

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Each week, The Malphurs Group team tackles important, actionable topics to help your church succeed in revitalization and leadership. We want to equip your church break through barriers and maximize your impact.

Episode Date
Navigating Church Politics
Oct 07, 2026
Title: Moving Men from Consumers to Contributors
Sep 30, 2026
How to Jumpstart Church Growth from a Plateau
Sep 23, 2026
Are You Ready to be a Church Consultant QUIZ
Sep 15, 2026
Three Fixes for Failing Strategies
Sep 09, 2026
Why Your Church Needs a Formal Review Process
Sep 02, 2026
Three Volunteer Recruitment Mistakes
Aug 26, 2026
Solving the "Next Generation" Leadership Crisis
Aug 19, 2026
Reasons Your Gut Feeling is a Dangerous Growth Strategy
Aug 12, 2026
Leading Indicators That Predict Healthy Church Growth
Aug 05, 2026
Warning Signs Your Church Is Trapped in the Consumerism Cycle
Jul 29, 2026
Communicating with Your Church Before Strategic Planning Starts
Jul 22, 2026
The Gen Alpha Shift: 3 Things Every Kids Ministry Must Change Now
Jul 15, 2026
Beyond the Logo: 3 Steps to Define Your Church's Irresistible Identity
Jul 08, 2026
The "Side-Door" Strategy: 3 Ways to Reach Your Community Without a Sunday Invite
Jun 24, 2026
Three Types of "Gatekeepers" in Your Church
Jun 17, 2026
Overcoming Decision Fatigue for Pastors
Jun 10, 2026
Three Financial Reports Every Church Should Make
Jun 03, 2026
3 Signs Your Pastor (or You!) Can't Receive Feedback
May 27, 2026
Three Ways Being "Nice" is Killing Your Church Revitalization
May 20, 2026
How to Know if Your Church Has Expired Vision
May 13, 2026
Why Churches Stop Growing at Predictable Barriers
May 06, 2026
Three Signs of Low Emotional Intelligence in Pastors
Apr 29, 2026
Three Things Growing Churches Do With Their Facilities That Declining Churches Don't
Apr 22, 2026
Healthy Churches Have Healthy Pastors
Apr 15, 2026
Stop the Summer Slump Before It Starts
Apr 08, 2026
The Missing Link Between Your Sermon and Your Worship Service
Apr 01, 2026
3 Reasons Your Church Isn't Keeping Its Guests
Mar 25, 2026
Three Budget Areas Your Church is Underfunding
Mar 18, 2026
How to Overcome the "We've Always Done It This Way" Objection
Mar 11, 2026
Why Your Small Groups Aren't Actually Making Disciples
Mar 04, 2026
Warning Signs of Volunteer Burnout & How to Prevent Them
Feb 25, 2026
Building a Church That Outlasts Your Leadership
Feb 18, 2026
The Hidden Cost of 'Just One More Ministry'
Feb 11, 2026
Why Churches Struggle to Keep Young Adults (And How to Fix It)
Feb 04, 2026
Three Signs Your Discipleship Pathway Has Become a Maze
Jan 28, 2026
How to Lead When Your Church Board is Divided
Jan 21, 2026
Four Communication Breakdowns That Kill Church Momentum
Jan 14, 2026
Why Your Church's Values Don't Match Your Budget (And What to Do About It)
Jan 07, 2026
Church Consultants React to Social Media Christmas Clips
Dec 17, 2025
From Burnout to Best Fit: How to Transition Over-Committed Volunteers
Dec 10, 2025
5 Reasons Church Revitalization Efforts Fail
Dec 03, 2025
Scott & A.J. Debate the Best Christmas Set List
Nov 26, 2025
Three Church Membership Mistakes
Nov 19, 2025
Equipping Parents to Have Hard Conversations with Teens
Nov 11, 2025
Making the Most of Your Staff Meetings
Nov 05, 2025
Case Study: Growing a Small Church in a Big City
Oct 29, 2025
Should Your Church Do Strategic Planning Between Pastors?
Oct 22, 2025
How Pastors Can Balance Shepherding and Vision
Oct 15, 2025
How to Get Your People to USE Planning Center
Oct 08, 2025
How Can Healthy Churches Help Declining Churches?
Oct 01, 2025
Should Our Church Close?
Sep 24, 2025
How Churches Can Manage and Prioritize Community Partnerships
Sep 17, 2025
Three Elder Selection Pitfalls
Sep 10, 2025
Should Your Church Do a Building Project?
Sep 03, 2025
How Do We Create an Evangelism and Outreach Culture in Our Church?
Aug 27, 2025
From Doing to Leading as a Church Leader
Aug 20, 2025
How to Get More People into Small Groups
Aug 13, 2025
Building a Healthy Multisite Church Leadership Culture
Aug 06, 2025
Growing Younger in an Aging Church
Jul 30, 2025
Church Consultants Answering YOUR Church Revitalization Questions!
Jul 23, 2025
Three Ways to Prepare for the Fall Ministry Launch
Jul 16, 2025
How (& When) to Fire Church Volunteers
Jul 09, 2025
The Top 5 Church Constitution & Bylaw Problems
Jul 02, 2025
When Is the Best Time for Volunteer Recruitment?
Jun 25, 2025
Three MYTHS About Spiritual Gifts
Jun 18, 2025
Why Temperament Matters in Church Volunteer Roles
Jun 11, 2025
Why Unhealthy Churches Sometimes Grow
Jun 04, 2025
Vision That Sticks
May 28, 2025
Streamlining Discipleship Ministries: A Guide to Effective Church Engagement
May 21, 2025
How to Build a Thriving Small Groups Ministry + Build Groups Partnership (w/ Adam Erlichman)
May 14, 2025
Five Things Worship Leaders Should STOP Doing
May 07, 2025
How Big Is Your Church...Actually?
Apr 30, 2025
Starting Well at Your New Church: A Guide for Pastors
Apr 23, 2025
Preparing Your Church for A New Pastor (New Pastor Onboarding Part 1)
Apr 16, 2025
Three Kinds of Churches that FAIL at Revitalization
Apr 09, 2025
Three Pitfalls for GROWING Churches
Apr 02, 2025
The Five Types of Church Teams: How to Be a HIGH PERFORMANCE Team
Mar 26, 2025
Who is Blocking Your Ministry Vision?
Mar 19, 2025
Christianity in America: Is the Decline Over?
Mar 12, 2025
Church Revitalization Through Outreach: Becoming an Externally Focused Church
Mar 05, 2025
How Leadership Dysfunction Holds Back Church Growth
Feb 26, 2025
How to Start a Church Revitalization Process
Feb 19, 2025
Five Overlooked Guest Experience Questions
Feb 12, 2025
Top Church Volunteer Recruiting HACKS
Feb 05, 2025
Three Things Elders Should NEVER Do
Jan 29, 2025
Eliminating Ministry Silos
Jan 22, 2025
4 Things Your Church Consultant Doesn't Want to Hear You Say
Jan 15, 2025
The Great Commission vs The Comfortable Commission: Are We Playing It Too Safe?
Jan 08, 2025
Top Revitalization MISTAKES of 2024
Dec 18, 2024
Why the Early Church "Skipped" Worship Services (w/ Dr. Tom Wadsworth)
Dec 11, 2024
The Five Reasons People May Come to Your Church This Christmas
Dec 04, 2024
The 3 Types of Church Website Visitors (w/ Derek Maxson)
Nov 20, 2024
Three Things to Do Before the End of the Year
Nov 13, 2024
The Best (& Worst) Times for Strategic Planning
Nov 06, 2024
Innovating in Ministry without Losing Focus
Oct 30, 2024
How to Create a Culture of Collaboration
Oct 23, 2024
Healthy Churches Toolkit Overview!
Oct 16, 2024
Good AI vs. Bad AI: Ethical Ways for Churches to Use Artificial Intelligence
Oct 09, 2024
The Benefits of Sermon Based Groups
Oct 02, 2024
Revitalizing Your Aging Congregation: 3 High-Impact Strategies in 90 Days
Sep 25, 2024
Battling Biblical Illiteracy: 4 Game-Changing Techniques for Modern Churches
Sep 18, 2024
3 Overlooked Growth Strategies for Mid-Sized Churches
Sep 11, 2024
The Five Habits of a Healthy Church
Sep 04, 2024
Preaching with Purpose: Crafting Sermons that Resonate in a Distracted Age
Aug 28, 2024
The Silent Exodus: Understanding Why Men Are Leaving the Church
Aug 21, 2024
Maintaining Excellence: 3 Key Questions to Improve Your Sunday Worship Services
Aug 14, 2024
Why Strategies Fail: Overcoming Three Key Mistakes
Aug 07, 2024
Nostalgia vs. Vision: Which direction is your church looking?
Jul 31, 2024
Church Consultant Pop Quiz: Real-World Solutions for Made-Up Churches
Jul 24, 2024
Love Thy Political Neighbor: A Faith-Based Approach to Healthy Discourse
Jul 17, 2024
Big Hospitality in Small Spaces: How to Have a Great Guest Experience with a Small Lobby
Jul 10, 2024
Five Barriers to Effective Decision-Making in the Church
Jul 03, 2024
Improving Church Health through Annual Check-Ups
Jun 26, 2024
Summer Break: Why Rest is Critical for Healthy Pastors
Jun 19, 2024
Overcoming Obstacles in Pipeline Implementation
Jun 12, 2024
The 3-Step Development Process: Assessing, Training, and Launching Leaders
Jun 05, 2024
The Critical Role of Core Competencies for Leadership
May 29, 2024
Laying the Foundation for a Leadership Pipeline: Defining Leadership Levels
May 22, 2024
Why Every Church Needs a Leadership Pipeline
May 15, 2024
Five Misconceptions About Revitalization
May 08, 2024
Communicating God's Word in an Election Year
May 01, 2024
Why God Uses Small Ministries to Make a Big Impact
Apr 24, 2024
Building Your Strategic Planning Dream Team
Apr 17, 2024
Developing a Discipleship Pathway for Kids & Students
Apr 09, 2024
The Importance of Succession Planning in the Church
Apr 03, 2024
The Senior Pastor Demographic Cliff: Why Churches are in Danger & How to Fix It
Mar 27, 2024
The Common Failure Point in Church Revitalization: Key Insights for Implementation Success
Mar 20, 2024
Building a High-Impact Groups Ministry
Mar 13, 2024
What to Know Before Hiring a Church Consultant
Mar 06, 2024
How to Create Vision-Focused Goals & Measures in the Church
Feb 28, 2024
Good News or Bad News? Reacting to the Latest Data on Baptisms
Feb 21, 2024
Three Reasons to Become a Church Consultant (And One Reason Not to)
Feb 14, 2024
Where Are We Going? Answering the Vision Question
Feb 07, 2024
Building a Disciple-Centric Church: The Role of Primary and Secondary Ministries
Jan 31, 2024
Disciple-SHIFT: What is (and isn't) a Discipleship Pathway?
Jan 24, 2024
Understanding the Four Types of Core Values
Jan 17, 2024
How to Evaluate Your Church's Mission Statement
Jan 10, 2024
Five Painful Problems SOLVED By a Leadership Pipeline
Jan 03, 2024
Eliminating Knowledge Biases
Dec 20, 2023
The Uncomfortable Truth About Church Decline
Dec 13, 2023
Why Church Giving is UP But Pastors Are STILL Quitting
Dec 06, 2023
How You Can Make a Global Impact
Nov 28, 2023
Embracing Gratitude: A Key to Church Revitalization
Nov 22, 2023
2024 Vision: Planning for GROWTH in the New Year
Nov 15, 2023
Coffee in the Sanctuary!? Scott & A.J. DEBATE John Piper's Tweet
Nov 08, 2023
Rethinking Leadership: How Broken Leadership Methods Are Holding Your Church Back
Nov 01, 2023
Overcoming Evil: Staying Focused on the Great Commission
Oct 25, 2023
Unleashing Potential: Empower Co-Shepherds in Your Church
Oct 18, 2023
Congregational Paralysis: Driving Discipleship with Clear Communication
Oct 11, 2023
Breaking Growth Barriers: Escaping the Small Church Syndrome
Oct 04, 2023
Toxic Leadership: Controlling and Manipulative Pastors Wreaking Havoc in the Church
Sep 27, 2023
How to Answer the Biggest Questions Seekers Have About Faith
Sep 20, 2023
Church Death Spiral: How Once-Thriving Churches Hit Rock Bottom
Sep 13, 2023
Wounded and Dying: Can Your Church Recover From Scandal?
Sep 06, 2023
An Epidemic of Apathetic Families: Curing "Sunday-Only" Faith
Aug 30, 2023
How to Grow Your Church Without Compromising Your Values
Aug 23, 2023
From Fixed to Growth: Developing a Revitalization Mindset
Aug 16, 2023
What Your Church Can Learn from Grocery Stores: Why Culture Matters
Aug 09, 2023
Post-Christian America: What's Going Wrong In Our Churches?
Aug 02, 2023
Top Five of the First 200 Episodes
Jul 26, 2023
Financial Stewardship: Cultivating Generosity in Your Church
Jul 19, 2023
Balancing Ministry and Family: Maintaining Healthy Relationships Amidst Busy Schedules
Jul 12, 2023
Burning Revitalization Questions: Provocative Insights for Church Revitalization
Jul 06, 2023
Is Pastoral Care the Primary Role of the Pastor?
Jun 28, 2023
Breaking Down Rick Warren and The SBC
Jun 21, 2023
Who Has the Power in the Church?
Jun 07, 2023
Building Consensus for Change
May 31, 2023
Five Ways to Disciple Men
May 24, 2023
Anatomy of a Bad Sermon
May 17, 2023
Five Volunteer Recruitment Tactics
May 10, 2023
Empowering the Global Church: How You Can Make a Difference
May 03, 2023
Breaking Free From Sunday Morning Apathy
Apr 26, 2023
Moving to One Service: 5 Things You Need to Know
Apr 19, 2023
Bridging the Generational Gap: Strategies for Reaching Millennials & Gen Z
Apr 12, 2023
Spiritual Revitalization: The Key to True Church Renewal and Growth
Apr 05, 2023
The Leader as Spiritual Mentor
Mar 29, 2023
The Dark Side of Leadership: 5 Emotional Disorders
Mar 22, 2023
What Kind of Evangelical Are You?
Mar 15, 2023
Five Things You Need to Know About Moving to Two Services
Mar 08, 2023
Five Sermon Series Ideas for Revitalizing Churches
Mar 01, 2023
The Difference Between Leading and Directing in Church Leadership
Feb 22, 2023
What's Happening at Asbury University?
Feb 15, 2023
Get Things Done: How to Design an Action Plan That Works
Feb 08, 2023
How Good Is an A.I. Sermon?
Feb 01, 2023
Five Lies Churches Tell Themselves
Jan 18, 2023
How to Use Systems Thinking to Reach Your Vision
Jan 11, 2023
Top 5 of 2022
Jan 04, 2023
A Special Announcement!
Dec 28, 2022
Expecting Revitalization: Showing Love
Dec 21, 2022
Expecting Revitalization: Creating a Culture of Joy
Dec 14, 2022
Advent: Peace
Dec 08, 2022
Expecting Revitalization: Reason for Hope
Nov 30, 2022
Why We're Thankful
Nov 23, 2022
New Data: Religious Trends in America
Nov 16, 2022
Dealing With People Who Resist Change
Nov 09, 2022
Four Common Barriers to Strategy Implementation
Nov 02, 2022
How Pastors Can Leverage Their Public Trust
Oct 26, 2022
Four Skills You Didn't Learn in Seminary
Oct 19, 2022
Six Biblical Signs of a Revitalized Church
Oct 12, 2022
How to Start a Church Podcast
Oct 05, 2022
How to Hire Good Church Staff
Sep 28, 2022
Sunday School vs Small Groups
Sep 21, 2022
Five Dysfunctional Habits of Unhealthy Church Boards
Sep 14, 2022
Are Pastors Paid Fairly? Evaluating Compensation and Raises for Church Staff
Sep 07, 2022
The Problem of Too Many Ministries
Aug 31, 2022
Three Common Reasons Churches Contact a Consultant
Aug 24, 2022
What Every Pastor Should Know Every Week
Aug 17, 2022
Why Millennials are Leaving Their Faith & How to Fix It
Aug 10, 2022
10 Ways to Maximize Fall Church Attendance
Aug 03, 2022
How to Break Free from the Status Quo
Jul 27, 2022
How to Improve Your Worship Music
Jul 20, 2022
Building A Healthy Leadership Development Process
Jul 13, 2022
5 Warning Signs Your Church Needs Revitalization
Jul 06, 2022
Overturning Roe: Three Responses the Church Must Take
Jun 29, 2022
Top 7 Reasons Pastors Consider Quitting
Jun 22, 2022
Ministering as a Couple
Jun 15, 2022
Top 5 Worship Service Mistakes
Jun 08, 2022
How to Increase Biblical Literacy in Your Church
Jun 01, 2022
What the SBC Sex Abuse Scandal Means for Your Church
May 25, 2022
3 Tips for Onboarding a New Pastor
May 18, 2022
Managing as a Conscientious-Type Leader: Deep on DiSC Part 4
May 11, 2022
Leading as a Steady-Type Leader: Deep on DiSC Part 3
May 04, 2022
Leading as an Influence-Type Leader: Deep on DiSC Part 2
Apr 27, 2022
Thriving as a Dominant-Type Leader: Deep on DiSC Part 1
Apr 20, 2022
How to Communicate Vision | 3 Questions to Improve Vision Communication
Apr 13, 2022
3 Threats to Your Core Values | The Church Revitalization Podcast
Apr 06, 2022
Equipping Equippers to Build the Global Church
Mar 30, 2022
How to Be a Great Small Group Leader: 5 Keys to Leading a Successful Small Group
Mar 23, 2022
Evangelism Lessons from St. Patrick: Three Kinds of Third-Places 🍀
Mar 16, 2022
Maximizing Church Volunteer Effectiveness: Divine Design
Mar 09, 2022
How Healthy Is Your Church? 6 Ways to Measure Church Health
Mar 02, 2022
Easter Outreach Ideas | Reach More People at Your Church
Feb 23, 2022
How to Plan a Church Newcomer Event | Church Guest Assimilation
Feb 16, 2022
How to Attract Younger People to Your Church | Reaching the Next Generation
Feb 09, 2022
How to Write Volunteer Job Descriptions | FREE Editable Job Description Template
Feb 02, 2022
Three Keys to Transformational Worship Services
Jan 26, 2022
5 Reasons Why You Have an Apathetic Church Congregation (and What to do About it)
Jan 19, 2022
Do Church Mergers Work?
Jan 12, 2022
Five Habits of High Impact Leaders | Become a Better Leader
Jan 05, 2022
Top 5 Church Revitalization Topics of 2021
Dec 29, 2021
Reasons to be Hopeful About 2022
Dec 22, 2021
Essentials of Assimilating Newcomers Into Your Church: Guest Assimilation Tips
Dec 15, 2021
How to Increase Your Team's Incompetence 🤔👎
Dec 08, 2021
Three Communication Tips to Retain Volunteers 💬
Dec 01, 2021
Thanksgiving Bonus Episode 🍗🥧 + Limited Time Offer
Nov 24, 2021
5 Sustainable Strategies for Healthy Church Growth 🌱📈
Nov 17, 2021
How to Manage Church Politics
Nov 10, 2021
Moving People From Your Church to the Kingdom ⛪
Nov 03, 2021
Creative Christmas Church Outreach Ideas 🎄🎅
Oct 27, 2021
Using Technology to Become More Relational
Oct 20, 2021
How to Run a Men's Ministry at Your Church
Oct 13, 2021
Why People Don't Volunteer at Your Church
Sep 29, 2021
10 Deadly Church Planting Mistakes
Sep 22, 2021
The Secret Power That Can Build Up or Tear Down Your Church
Sep 15, 2021
Is Church Marketing Biblical? With Ryan Wakefield
Sep 08, 2021
Secrets of a Church Consultant: 5 Realities About Church Consulting
Sep 01, 2021
How to Increase Church Giving (and Stop Leaving Money on the Table)
Aug 25, 2021
Three Budget Hacks to Grow Your Church
Aug 18, 2021
Why Your Outreach Strategy Isn't Working: 5 Ways to Fix It
Aug 11, 2021
The Importance of Strategic Planning
Aug 04, 2021
Dr. Aubrey Malphurs: 5 Competencies of High Impact Leaders
Jul 28, 2021
Small Group Killers: 5 Problems That Plague Small Group Ministries
Jul 21, 2021
Breaking News: Three Key Insights from Newly Released Church Research
Jul 14, 2021
10 Freedoms Pastors Have in the Church
Jul 07, 2021
Three Tips for Better Staff Meetings
Jun 30, 2021
5 Roadblocks to a Healthy Church Board
Jun 23, 2021
7 Vision Failures Holding Churches Back
Jun 16, 2021
How Do I Know If My Church Is Revitalized?
Jun 09, 2021
How to Leverage the Summer for Growth
Jun 02, 2021
A Pre-Revitalization Checklist
May 26, 2021
Keeping Your Church From a Slow Death
May 19, 2021
Church Leaders are the Problem
May 12, 2021
Results-Based Discipleship
May 05, 2021
What Difference Does Emotional Intelligence Make?
Apr 28, 2021
Challenging the Status Quo
Apr 21, 2021
Church Strategic Planning
Apr 14, 2021
Nine Obstacles to Effective Communication in the Church
Apr 07, 2021
5 Warning Signs of Narcissistic Leadership
Mar 31, 2021
Cultivate Individual Evangelism
Mar 24, 2021
Reaching a Post-Christian World
Mar 17, 2021
Ministry Goals
Mar 10, 2021
11 Church Hospitality Tips to Serve Guests
Mar 03, 2021
The Church's Competitive Advantage Around the Multi-Ethnic Conversation
Feb 24, 2021
The Power & Pitfalls of Metrics
Feb 17, 2021
3 Strategies for Improving Team Performance
Feb 10, 2021
Four Challenges Hispanic Churches Face
Feb 03, 2021
Revitalizing The Remnant
Jan 27, 2021
5 Myths About Leadership Accountability
Jan 20, 2021
Make Church Fun Again
Jan 13, 2021
10 Church Consulting Essentials To Know Before Hiring a Consultant
Jan 06, 2021
Episode 70: Getting Ready for 2021
Dec 29, 2020
Episode 69: The Best Presence
Dec 23, 2020
Episode 68: Clarity Drives Ministry
Dec 16, 2020
Episode 67: Is Your Church Healthy?
Dec 09, 2020
Episode 66: Building Your Schedule to Build Your Church
Dec 02, 2020
Episode 66: Building Your Schedule to Build Your Church
Dec 02, 2020
Episode 65: 3 Creative Christmas Outreach Ideas
Nov 24, 2020
Episode 64: Why Your Church Isn't Developing Leaders
Nov 18, 2020
Episode 63: Future-Proof Church Metrics
Nov 11, 2020