Pentecost is six days away. If the Spirit moves on someone in our pews this Sunday — do we have a real next rung ready, or just a connection card and a hope?
Ask it. The answer will tell you what to build next.
Lifeway Research (May 12) — 77% of churchgoers say they've built significant relationships at their church. Yet a third still aren't in any kind of small group. The connective tissue is forming — unevenly. See the study →
Lifeway Research (May 5) — Southern Baptist baptisms grew nearly 5% in 2025, the fifth straight year of growth — the first such streak in 75 years. Even as membership keeps shrinking. Read it →
A third of churchgoers still aren't in any kind of small group. — Lifeway's State of Discipleship (May 2026) found 32% don't regularly participate in a typical month. Down from 41% in 2013. The drift is slowing. The seam between Sunday and Wednesday is where it closes. See the report →
Graduation Sundays land between now and June, and Pentecost is six days out. Your people are carrying transitions in — kids leaving home, callings stirring, futures unclear. A named blessing in staff meeting goes further than a sermon series.
We have programs. We don't have a path. So people stall between interested and invested.
The teammate for this:
Discipleship Pathways routes each person from where they are to the next real rung, surfaces who's stalled before they drift, and tells the right pastor to reach out. Module 06 of Exec Pastor OS.
See it →Free tools live at churchops.ai/on-the-house.
"And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near." — Hebrews 10:24–25
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