Leadership
Holistic Leadership Development
You want to develop leaders who will do what Jesus called us to do, leaders who can take the church forward into the 21st century. You look to the fields and see them, as Jesus does, ready for harvest — and you know that’s where your ministry needs to concentrate.
What’s needed is holistic leadership development — the kind of leadership development that comes from the harvest and leads people back into the harvest, resulting in subsequent generations of new believers and new leaders living as Jesus called us to live.
We can help you develop leaders the kind of leaders you need in a way that is both relational and intentional… and ultimately effective in helping your church accomplish its mission.
8 Tips for Effective Meetings
Many ministry tasks can be accomplished without meetings. In general, the fewer meetings the better. But sometimes you have to have them. And when you do, effective meetings accomplish what they are supposed to accomplish. Here are a few tips for holding effective...
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...
NEW BOOK! An Undivided Heart
Early in the pandemic, I was talking with my friend Ralph Plumb about the role of compassion in the Kingdom of God and in society. Ralph is widely traveled with much of those travels focused on the relief of human suffering. He also served the Union Rescue Mission in...
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...
Leadership Principles vs. Methodology
Leadership methods, approaches, and styles change. Strategies differ depending on the seasons, persons, and/or context. New books pop up on leadership and leadership in ministry constantly but some books stand the test of time. These books are classics because they...
Empowering others
You have developed a training system that has been tested and works and you are now ready to move on to the third and final step: empowering others. In this way, the replication doesn’t end with you. You train others, who train others, who go on to train others… and...
Design a process that works
You have perfected a secret sauce that has been the key to your success. What is the best way to share this key to propel others to similar success? Last week, we examined how to do a deeper dive into your own past experiences and learnings to identify and crystalize...
Discern the core principles from your experience
You want to make a difference. Your experience can help others. However, you don't want to create little clones of yourself, you want to empower others to have their own experience and live into who God created them to be. Discerning the core principles from your own...
Translating Your Experience to Magnify Your Impact
I recently taught a live one-hour webinar for a group of graduate students who have some type of experience or learning in a particular area that they want to pass on to others. They want to help others learn how to do what they have done. It's a matter of translating...
The relationship between coach certification and coach competence
Does certification make a coach competent? Good question! I asked Gary Reinecke of InFocus to talk about coaching certification. Gary is a fantastic coach, who has achieved the highest coaching certification available today. We wrote the Coaching 101 Handbook together...