Sometimes we go the wrong way on our way to the right way.
"Why did you decide to attend our church for the first time?" Asking focus groups questions like this can help you understand your church in a deeper way.
Exodus 18:19-23 shows us the best way to distribute responsibility and authority.
Leadership is not as much about knowing the right answers as it is about knowing the right questions.
As leaders, we're often tempted to believe that a conference or book or program will instantly solve our problems. But lasting solutions always require significant work.
To introduce significant change, leaders must know when and how to cash in their “change chips.”
How do you know when to draw the line and stay out of your employees' private lives?
The kind of habits we form in life will play a large part in our success or failure.
If you get your assumptions right as a church leader, the future should be a lot easier than if you get them wrong.
Leaders need to grow and change or their organizations won’t.
I suggest five ways to deepen your integrity from the book of Daniel.
Would you allow anything to stand between you and Jesus?
Many of us disentangle the secular from the spiritual, even if just a little.
When this world wounds you, don’t you sometimes muse, “Lord, I think I want to come home now”?
You want to reach people. But is your church compelling to your highways and byways (your community)?
How do we carry out this great commission in our everyday lives?
Leaders must be able to end their day, look back, and know with certainty whether or not this was a good leadership day.
The excuses I made about my physical condition sound a lot like ones I’ve heard from leaders about their developmental needs.
The church welcome ministry is more important today than it’s ever been.
We could call it perseverance, determination, gumption, faithfulness.
