Church planting networks

Church Planting, Leadership, Networking

By guest blogger Dave White Part of a week-long series In our ministry in the Philippines we’ve changed the way we conduct our training of church planters. We used to gather planers for a four-day seminar and give them enough material to take them through the whole...

How do you know when it’s working?

Leadership

  Without any clear benchmarks for change, it’s almost impossible to measure whether change is happening. What is transformation? What does it look like?  Would you recognize it if you saw it? Here are the 10 signs of change used by the ministry I visited in...

Macro thinking vs. Micro thinking

Leadership

In the midst of a consultation recently it became apparent that the two groups that were there were starting to talk past each other. One group took a macro approach. They asked, “What would this look like if it were completely fleshed out?” They wanted the big...

Asking the right questions

Leadership

  Yesterday I wrote about the growth of urban slums. Which leaves us with the question: “What can we as the church do about it?”  Yet our guiding question shouldn’t be, “What can we do to address the challenge of urban slums?” but rather, “What will it take to...

Winston Churchill on courage

Leadership

Lately I’ve been reading a biography of Winston Churchill and ran across this quote from him: “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”  This reminds me of the role we have as Christian leaders. Certainly...