When (and How) to Have Difficult Conversations
Difficult conversations can actually help people feel encouraged and, in many cases, can motivate people to get back into the game.
Category: Leadership
Sabotaging the Hero Complex in Discipleship
Power is a tricky thing. Even people who want to use their powers for good can fall prey to a hero complex, the kind obvious in the worlds of sports, comics and church-planters.
Leadership Transformation – 17 Ways Forward
17 ways to transform your leadership that I picked up from these leaders over the years. I hope they’ll provide personal growth and leadership transformation for you in the months ahead.
If You Don’t Know Millennials’ Zero-Tolerance Policy, You’ll Never Reach Them
Articles, Leadership, Strategy
A church’s “cool factor” isn’t what’s bringing in Millennials.
4 Leadership Qualities Every Ministry Leader Should Possess
Church planters need to build a team, and in addition to leadership skills, we should look for leadership qualities in our people.
4 (Avoidable) Leadership Mistakes
While it’s natural to go through seasons when our ministry efforts don’t seem to be moving forward as quickly as we’d like, there are a few common (but avoidable) leadership mistakes that can cause ministry momentum to stagnate.
Effective Congregational Care: Help Your Church Thrive
Articles, Leadership, Strategy
I’d been a pastor for several years before I received the revelation of effective congregational care. It hit me like a ton of bricks and soon became a revolution that changed my life and ministry forever.
Without Discipleship, Your Church Is the Fellowship of Low Expectations
Discipleship, we suppose, is for those few super-saints called into the ministry, and so we are trapped in the fellowship of low expectations.
17 Symptoms of a Toxic Team Culture
Great leaders take responsibility for bringing clarity to their team culture. How do you know if you’ve got a healthy volunteer and staff team culture, or a toxic team culture?
Pornography and Church Discipline: Is it Ever Appropriate?
For all the time and prayers, hopes and hugs, promises and good intentions, resolutions and moral resolve—nothing seems to happen. It all appears futile. Is there ever a time to connect pornography and church discipline?
