What did friendship mean to me during my years as a pastor? What is your experience at the intersection of leadership and friendship?
Leadership
Unhealthy Dependencies: 3 Ways to Avoid Nurturing Them
Sometimes we solve people’s problems by giving them answers instead of fostering insight. These choices are unhealthy dependencies.
Leaving Ministry: When a Secular Job Looks Inviting To A Pastor
Everyone thinks about leaving ministry. I’ve been there. I know pastors and staff members who are there now. And, I’ve known leaders who actually took this route. It happens.
Avoid the Leadership “Death Spiral”
An aviation term called a death spiral describes what can happen to a plane in nighttime or poor flying conditions when a pilot loses his sense of the plane’s horizontal orientation. In ministry, leaders can often get caught in a similar downward spiral.
What Do You Mean, “Church Plant”?
Every church is a church plant. No contemporary church came into existence ex nihilo. All churches had starting points–planting points.
Lessons Learned: 9 Things I Wish I Knew 40 Years Ago
As a leader in the church for over forty years, among the lessons learned one thing is for certain: Very little is for certain.
