Small Groups: Guidelines and Norms
Every group has norms, whether they are stated or unstated, examined or unexamined. If you are overseeing small groups in your ministry, I would suggest there are significant advantages to be had by stating, examining, processing, and reinforcing small groups...
Conducting Ministry Experiments
Over the last two years, the Church was forced to stretch and find new ways to gather and share the gospel. The invention was birthed out of necessity but as necessity waned, the interest in the innovations has largely waned as well. Yet, culture proceeds to shifts...
Is your goal to be right or to be effective?
Do you want to be right or do you want to be effective? That is a critical choice for many of us as ministry leaders. Being right ≠ being effective When I find myself in this position, a question I ask myself is this: “What do I gain by insisting on being right?...
Supernatural Leadership
As leaders, how do we engage with the supernatural? How do we process it when we see something that we think might be supernatural? Or when we desperately want something supernatural to happen and we just aren’t seeing it? As we lead and disciple others, how do we...