I’ve seen leaders – whether pastors, politicians or in business – try to take people places, even worthy places, and believe people would follow because they are popular as a leader. What they really needed was leadership trust.
For 30 years the primary indicator of health in churches is weekend attendance. The challenge is that healthy things aren’t the only things that grow.
As it approaches the end of its third decade, multisite church has become the mainstream idea for healthy, growing churches of all kinds and sizes.
Every day, up to eight times a day, I silently perform a 1-3 minute spiritual ritual that is – quite literally – changing me. It’s called the Daily Examen.
A Pew survey found that 69% of people believe that religious leaders act unethically some, if not all, of the time. Pastors face a crisis of trust.
Some things require more than mere “behavior modification.” Real transformation has to start with identity.
It will always be true that life sucks, but we serve a Lord that has accomplished all things in life, and death, and he is our rock and salvation.
The more I have written about church leadership the more critics would email to say I shouldn’t. I shouldn’t tie leadership and the church together so closely. People have said I focus too much on church leadership and not enough on Jesus.
The Apostle Paul uttered the inspired phrase, “the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom . . .” So why are we still obsessed with man’s wisdom?
The 5 second rule is that you have roughly a 5 second period to perform an action before your mind will pull you out of it and stop you. The reason the mind stops you is because it naturally makes us take action for survival and comfort as a self defense mechanism.
I am still inching out of the darkness of a chronic illness, and I haven’t unearthed all the lessons learned. But one lesson presented itself even before the light was visible.And it’s this: self-care is not selfish.
