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.
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It's so hard to watch people leave the church. You have watched kids grow up and turn away from the faith that you helped raise them in and you have had whole families disappear, maybe without so much as a goodbye. It hurts. These people were and extended part of your...
8 Systems you will find essential moving forward
Where do you go from here? It’s been a rough couple of years for everyone, and that’s certainly also true of the church. You have been thinking for some time about the new normal—about moving forward on mission to share the love of Christ with a weary world. But where...
The Tension between Tasks and Callings
Admittedly, there is a tension between tasks and callings. If you have people you are overseeing, you likely do have certain tasks you need to get accomplished. They also likely have their own callings that dovetail with yours in some ways but not in others. Often...
Investing in those you oversee
If you are leading a ministry or a ministry area within a larger organization, you likely have people you oversee. These people may be paid staff or they may be volunteers, but either way it’s a useful exercise to sit down and think through how to lead these people...
The Missional Cohort Model
In the spirit of Ephesians 4:12, part of your calling is to equip God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up. Especially if you are equipping multiple congregations and ministries. You want to equip leaders well for the work of the...
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...