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.
On spiritual direction and coaching
I was recently asked this question in an email: “Bob - are you familiar enough with spiritual direction to be able to articulate the general differences between that and coaching?” As it happens, my wife Janet is a spiritual director, so I am familiar with the...
Virtual team success
Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance by Richard Lepsinger and Darleen DeRosa is an excellent resource if you need to work with virtual or decentralized teams. It’s researched-based and practical. Having worked with virtual...
Developing leadership in your church plant
If you expect your church plant to grow beyond your own personal capacity to lead others, you absolutely need to develop leadership in your church. There are two elements to this challenge: developing people and developing the organization. The people development side...
How can you help your people form missional communities?
As people come to know Jesus we form them into communities of Jesus-followers—called churches in the New Testament. These are disciple-making communities where people engage all the functions of the church: worshiping, edifying one another, serving together, using...
How can you help your people engage culture?
One of the major challenges of leading a church is kicking your people out of it. If they are spending all of their time within the church and with other Christians, they’re not out there engaging culture and making disciples. Engaging culture simply means living...
My newest book just released!
I have a new book just released that I’m really excited about. It’s called The Missional Journey: multiplying disciples and churches that transform the world. Check out some of the things people are saying about it: With The Missional Journey, Bob continues...
Learning to trust your coach and your team
Michael Jordan is arguably the best basketball player who has ever played the game. All over the world people have heard of him. In rural China “Jordan rules” can be seen written on basketball backboards. Michael Jordan was a star, the best player on his team-- on any...
Quarter-inch holes
You may have heard this quote by Harvard marketing professor Theodore Levitt: “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!” The idea is that when people buy something, they don’t necessarily want the product itself; they want a...
Leadership
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...