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Churches can be more secure, effective, and efficient.

We help by providing a custom online policy and process training platform designed for church growth, legal compliance, and risk management.  Church General Counsel is a pastor led law firm and administration consulting group for churches and church leaders under the direction of Managing Attorney Josh Bryant.

Custom Online Policy & Process Manual

Churches need a way to document their processes.  Processes are based on policies.  Policies are determined consistent with bylaws.  Bylaws are grounded in the Word of God.  God's Word is written and so are church bylaws.  But church policies, and to a greater extent church processes, are usually scattered throughout the church or only exist in the minds of ministers, pastors, and church leaders.  As a result, leaders and volunteers all do things differently.  That inconsistency leads to inconsistent churches.  Inconsistent churches are not optimally secure, effective and efficient.  But volunteers that follow repeatable processes make the church more efficient.  As processes are repeated they can be refined, making the church more effective.  As an attorney reviews and guides the church on those processes, the church becomes more secure.

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Josh Bryant
Managing Attorney

Josh Bryant is the Managing Attorney of Church General Counsel.  He has ten years of experience in the practice of law, including experience in employment law, non-profit law, tax, church and small business startups, church mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and more.  He also spent five years as a discipleship pastor at a large regional church, responsible for leading over 150 leaders in more than 50 Sunday School classes across two campuses for over 1,000 adults.  He has experience in church growth, guest services and assimilation, preaching, worship leadership, pastoral care, and more.  God's unique calling on his life to the practice of law followed by seminary and pastoral ministry make him uniquely qualified to help churches manage risk and still grow and fulfill their mission by documenting and training volunteers and staff on good church process and policy management.  Josh is available for speaking engagements and training events.  You can request his attendance at your event by filling out the speaker request form below.  He also hosts the Church Law Bootcamp, a 3 hour seminar that gives pastors, ministers, and church leaders a crash course in church law.