As President of Rainer Research, Sam Rainer works with thousands of churches to provide them answers for better church health. He is the co-author of Essential Church (B&H), an Outreach magazine columnist and a frequent conference speaker on church health issues. Locally, Sam serves as Campus Pastor at Sarasota Baptist Church, a multisite congregation on the suncoast of Florida.

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Sam Rainer
Thu Nov-05, 7:15 AM PST- 8:15 AM PST
Defining and Assessing Church Health
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Sam Rainer
Thu Nov-05, 10:30 AM PST- 12:00 PM PST
Reclaiming a Generation of Church Dropouts
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Sam Rainer
Thu Nov-05, 5:30 PM PST- 6:00 PM PST
Essential Church
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Nov 12
Web Site A Simple Idea to Invigorate Corporate Prayer You inherit a lot when you’re a new pastor at an established church. Being the new guy at FBC Murray, I did not realize until I got here ...
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Nov 5
Web Site One of the Biggest Reasons Why Churches Decline My wife and I are in San Diego this week at the National Outreach Convention. It’s been a great convention thus far. I had the opportunit...
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Oct 25
Web Site The Amiable Autocrat I found myself last week in a friendly exchange with a ministry team leader about one line item in their budget. Then I realized I was mi...
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Oct 22
Web Site How Different Generations View the Bible The Barna Group recently released research that reveals how attitudes about Bible usage are changing across generations. They interviewed...
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Oct 19
Web Site Avoiding the Awkward Wedding Question Perhaps nothing is both joyous and awkward like being asked to perform the wedding ceremony of a couple you do not know well. If you’re ...
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Oct 12
Web Site Church Inertia In a recent WSJ blog, Gary Hamel posted about the killer of organizational inertia. His thoughts on the forms of change are well-stated: ...
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Oct 5
Web Site Leading by Asking BusinessWeek recently published an article on question-based leadership. It was a good reminder that leaders do not have all the answers....
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Sep 28
Web Site The Pastor as Manager A dialogue continues among researchers about the differences between managers and leaders. It is clear that there is overlap between the ...
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Sep 20
Web Site A New Kind of Suburban Church Almost half of the U.S. population lives in the suburbs. And sprawling suburbia is changing. The WSJ recently reported that the place wh...
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Sep 13
Web Site The Importance of Vision During my transition to FBC Murray, I have the opportunity to worship with a few churches before making the move up to Kentucky. Today m...
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Sep 6
Web Site How Popular are House Churches? It depends – according to new research conducted by the Barna Group. I’ve heard several opinions, anecdotes, and estimations on the popul...
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Sep 3
Web Site 10 Things to Know about Leading Young Adults I recently did a breakout session at the Connect Conference in Charleston, SC (you can register here for the Shreveport, LA venue on Sept...