Increase Church Engagement, the free book by Jon-Michael Sherman

● Free book · 95 pages

Increase Church Engagement.

By Jon-Michael Sherman

Know the condition of your flock: see drift early, care well, and move people to their next step. For connections, assimilation, care and executive pastors.

  • Score every person in your database on five levels of engagement, by hand
  • The drift signals to watch, and a care system nobody slips through
  • The ask for every level, and a 90-day plan for every new person

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The five levels

Stop counting nickels and noses.

Attendance and giving tell you who was in the room and what came in. They don’t tell you the condition of your flock. Score every person on five levels instead, one point each, and you’ll know who is drifting, who is stuck on the sidelines, and what to ask each one next.

Each level moves someone from spectator to participant to owner. And every level is discipleship happening.

Everybody is one personal ask away from their next step.

1AttendingIn the room on Sunday.
2Hearing from youGets your texts and emails.
3In a groupKnown, formed and cared for.
4On a teamUsing their gifts.
5GivingIn the mission with you.

Inside the book

Know them. Care for them. Move them.

Three parts, in the order the work happens. Every chapter ends with one thing to do this week, and every part ends with a page on doing it in Engage.

Part 1Know: the condition of your flock

  1. 1Beyond Nickels and Noses
  2. 2Score Everyone, 0 to 5
  3. 3Find Your Engagement Gap
  4. 4Engagement Is Never Static
  5. 5Name Your Drift Signals
  6. 6Don’t Assume Why They Left
  7. 7The People Already in the Room

Part 2Care: a system nobody slips through

  1. 8Follow Through Until Yes or No
  2. 9Declines Are Care Moments
  3. 10When Giving Goes Quiet
  4. 11Who Left Their Group?
  5. 12Build a Care Team
  6. 13Answer Every Raised Hand
  7. 14What to Say on the Care Call
  8. 15Care at Scale
  9. 16Celebrate, Not Just Rescue
  10. 17Where Care History Lives
  11. 18Is Care Working?

Part 3Move: every person to their next step

  1. 19Invitation, Not Broadcast
  2. 20The More Personal, the Better
  3. 21Ask the Ones Who Left
  4. 22An Ask for Every Missing Level
  5. 23Care Touch or Serve Invite?
  6. 24Thirty Seconds Before Every Meeting
  7. 25Season the Ask
  8. 26Listen First
  9. 27One Clear Next Step
  10. 28Make It a Team Sport
  11. 29The First 48 Hours
  12. 30Engage 90
  13. 31Who’s Stalled?
  14. 32Measure the Front Door

Prefer to watch?

The book started as a free course.

Church Engagement is ten short video lessons in Jon-Michael’s own words: the five levels, the engagement gap, the asks, follow-through, content journeys, delegation and the Engage 90 challenge.

Watch the free course →Also free: Breaking Growth Barriers →
Increase Church Engagement, a free book

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Everyone in your church is somewhere between 0 and 5.

Engage scores every person from Planning Center or your church management software, flags who is drifting, and tells your team what to ask next.

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