{"id":475,"date":"2015-02-19T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:26","slug":"how-to-get-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/19\/how-to-get-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t focus on getting <em>bigger<\/em>. Focus on getting <em>better<\/em>. If you focus on getting better, you&#8217;ll get bigger. Here&#8217;s four questions we constantly ask ourselves at New Day about everything we do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>What went right?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What went wrong?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What was missing?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What was confusing?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We ask this after each Sunday and after every special event (i.e. after a baby dedication, a water baptism, a volunteer appreciation dinner, etc). It&#8217;s by asking these questions that you figure out how to do it better next time around. And again &#8211; when you get better, you&#8217;ll get bigger. If you aren&#8217;t already asking these questions, why not begin this Sunday. Your Sunday services are the most important of all things to begin evaluating. If you&#8217;re not doing this yet, don&#8217;t worry about evaluating anything else.<\/p>\n<p>By asking these questions you won&#8217;t see drastic improvements from week to week, but you sure will from year to year. Each week you&#8217;ll take one or two steps towards where you want to be as a church. Those many, many small steps, really add up in time.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, one more time&#8230;<strong>If you want to get bigger, focus on getting better. When you get better, you get bigger.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t focus on getting bigger. Focus on getting better. If you focus on getting better, you&#8217;ll get bigger. Here&#8217;s four questions we constantly ask ourselves at New Day about everything we do: What went right?\u00a0 What went wrong?\u00a0 What was missing?\u00a0 What was confusing?\u00a0 We ask this after each Sunday and after every special event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-leadership","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}