Resources
FOCUS: The Top Ten Things People Want and Need From You and Your Church
Lean about the latest discoveries from the groundbreaking REVEAL research with a growing database of 250,000 churchgoers and 1,000 churches. In this book, being released this summer, learn about the seven things every church must do, senior pastor top three priorities, and the new facts about the impact of preaching and vision casting.
Follow Me: What's Next for You
Four years of cutting-edge research: 200 churches, 80,000 people, and the breakthrough findings that will change the way you do church. Follow Me draws on the latest research to provide unprecedented insights into what drives—and derails—spiritual growth. It addresses questions every ministry leader wrestles with: How does spiritual growth happen? How do we help people move toward a more intimate and committed relationship to Christ? And it reveals the astonishingly honest responses people gave to questions about their spiritual lives.
More than anything else, what people really want is change—they want to become more like Jesus. And they’re looking to the church—to you—to help them grow.
REVEAL: Where Are You?
Are you really making a difference? How do you know? For years, church leaders have relied on numbers to help answer questions like these. In other words, we ask the “How many?” question. How many attend each week? Are in small groups? Actively serve? Tithe?
Numbers can be helpful, but they don’t reveal the whole story. Numbers can’t peer into the human heart. Reveal invites you to learn from its earliest findings, based on 5,000 surveys from seven churches, including Willow Creek. You’ll discover the four segments that characterize the journey of spiritual growth. You’ll learn more about what catalyzes and stunts spiritual growth. And you’ll understand how the church needs to change in order to help people become more like Christ.
