More than job performance, do they know you actually care about them as an individual?
A topic that does not get much attention is the dramatic shift in the front door of churches. By “front door,” I mean that place where a non-attendee will first check out a church.
Unfortunately the church can be guilty of overloading people with information. What might indicate that your church is guilty of infobesity?
When beginning a new role, most people tend to use one of four different approaches.
When life shakes us, what fruit is revealed?
What really matters to you?
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.
Would you allow anything to stand between you and Jesus?
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?
