In my experience of helping churches with strategic-planning tasks, the most controversial part of the process is choosing a target or focus group.
Many great CEOs are also great disruptors. However, Jesus was the greatest disruptor of all time. Christian executives and business leaders would do well to follow the disruptive disciplines of the leader Jesus.
Are you facing change? Have you labeled something or someone a “dragon," a threat to your comfort zone, that God may have brought for your good, your growth or His glory?
When leaders understand the three components of church culture and push in the right places their success rate improves—dramatically.
Though leaders are responsible for maintaining peace, it is also their job to occasionally be the architects of plans that disrupt status quo and complacency.
If you're a senior pastor who is uncertain about your future, consider your impact through interim ministry.
What do our methods look like and what are we reproducing? Is there diversity? Variety? Unity?
When you are in your worship services next Sunday, look at the people around you. Do they all look like you?
I am convinced that the Church is all about quick fixes in outreach ministry.
Just about everyone knows that vision is important. Should a church leadership team expect God to convey the same vision to each of them, simultaneously?
If the point of visionary leadership is to take our team toward the new and the better, will we ever get there by trying to smooth over the differences, or even by denying them?
Even though this new year is quickly slipping into history, it is not too late to see a new opportunity to embrace new attitudes and renewed efforts in church leadership.
Consider this life-changing, biblical leadership quality in your resolution for 2018.
Delightful. That’s my one-word review of the book by Presbyterian pastor Don Everts and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship coordinator, Doug Schaupp (IVP Books).
True leaders leave the premises knowing they made lives better.
Am I missing what God wants for me in this season because I’ve scheduled Him out?
See if you can identify with one or more of these issues where allowing the status quo to continue is harmful.
I am deeply committed to people, but I can also be deeply obsessed with accomplishing my agenda.
What influence has God given you? Are you ready to step out in leadership when a crisis comes?
Derwin Gray challenges us to think outside the circles of people with which we've surrounded ourselves.
