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A Bryant Firm

Documented processes and procedures protect the church.  But policy, process, and document management is hard, time consuming work that takes away from ministry.  As a result, most churches are operating unprotected and vulnerable.  Church leaders need a simple, affordable, expert way to protect their churches with good polices and procedures.

Why We're Here

Church General Counsel provides churches with a custom, online policy and process manual and document management system.  We also provide church leaders with quick access to an attorney who focuses on legal issues facing churches at no additional charge.  Managing Attorney Josh Bryant is also an ordained pastor who pastored at a church of over 2,500. He knows churches.

What We Do

We have a simple four step process to help churches.

1. Onboard: We do the system setup, training, & development.
2. Prevent: We find weaknesses, correct them, & teach you best practices.
3. Respond: We listen to problems, analyze the situation, & advise action.
4. Retain: We retain clients through support, embracing complaints, & correcting error.

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Maintaining church policy is hard.

Church policy is hard because it takes so much time away from your ministry.  You have to write it, teach it, monitor it, enforce it, refine it, and just when you think you have it down you have to write it again.  You did not go to seminary for church policy to take away so much time from ministry, leadership development, disciple making, and sermon preparation.

​We make it simple.

We make church policy simple by writing and maintaining it for you so that you can focus on doing ministry.  We provide your church with a custom web-based policy manual.  We make sure to provide you with policy that balances church growth and ministry with legal compliance and risk management.  Managing Attorney Josh Bryant is a pastor who leads Church General Counsel, a law firm and church administration consulting group for church leaders.

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.