Chuck Lawless

Some voices don’t just speak—they steer everything. From controlling information to dismissing others, these patterns quietly shape a church’s direction. Here are 15 warning signs every leader needs to recognize.

Over the years, I’ve studied churches that have done a good job not only of reaching people, but also of keeping them/assimilating them. Here are seven components of effective assimilation I’ve seen:

Church growth writers talk about the bell-shaped curve that characterizes the growth of many churches. The left side of the bell curve is exciting (vision, outreach, growth, etc.), but the right side is challenging (nostalgia, decline, division, etc.).

Chuck Lawless says he's still learning how to pursue his wife even as he runs the race of ministry. In this article, he offers 10 helpful tips he's learning.

It’s spiritual warfare against the evangelist. That’s one reason—a reason we don’t often think about—that evangelism is hard.

Chuck Lawless suspects all churches have at least one of these persons. Baby believers are those young believers who are just now learning how to walk with Christ, but who are fresh in their faith. Believers who are babies, on the other hand, are usually longer-term believers who don’t act like mature believers.

Chuck Lawless knows pastors call people to share the Gospel, but, in this piece, he encourages them to be an example in evangelism.

In this piece, Chuck Lawless makes the case that church leaders need a person who regularly encourages them and helps lighten the load.

Chuck Lawless some helpful considerations for your church's Christmas Eve gathering.

While every pastor should want to finish their ministry where they are, Chuck Lawless says there are indicators that a pastor has stayed too long. Read this piece for his list.