Ministry Goals: Five Winning Characteristics
Your church will never go where you are not intentionally leading it. If you want to lose twenty pounds, but never go on a diet…
Category: Leadership
Do You Have a Leadership Pipeline to Nowhere?
“Leadership Pipeline” remains a popular buzzword in business and ministry, and for good reason. We do need to be developing leaders at all levels of…
Leave It Better Than You Found It
There’s something genuinely disappointing about being out in nature—on a beach, in the woods, above tree line on the way to the top of a…
10 Ways to Burn Out Your Team
A church’s most valuable asset is its leadership; so you must be careful not to burn out your team. In our collective decades of ministry…
How Preaching Can Change Lives
Those of us who are regularly teaching and/or preaching in our churches do so to encourage life change on the part of the people who…
10 Ways to Maximize Fall Church Attendance
Back to school, back to church. Throughout the country, churches of all sizes and denominations experience a bump in fall church attendance. Congregations benefit from…
5 Myths About Leadership Accountability
Churches without leadership accountability have a one-way ticket to organizational implosion. This isn’t an overstatement. It’s the truth. When pastors lack effective accountability, eventually the…
A Good First Impression Starts with Clarity
We’ve all had the experience of being a first time guest at a church. Hopefully it was good, but maybe it wasn’t. Just like with any…
14 Ways to Better Understand Your Community
One of the best ways to reach your community is to take the time to understand your community and what makes it unique. In Acts 1:8,…
15 Characteristics of Healthy Church Leaders
A healthy church begins with healthy church leaders. It’s easy to assume someone serving “in ministry” has things all together, but you and I both…