5 Clarifications for Navigating a New Position
Adjusting to a new role requires clarity. Here are five key clarifications to help you when navigating a new position, ensuring a smoother transition and better integration with your team.
Leadership
Why Dying Churches Close Their DoorsFor Good
The majority of American churches were in decline prior to the pandemic. COVID accelerated and exacerbated the decline. Dying churches are in denial. Their leaders and members simply do not realize how little time is left before they must close their church.
Is Your Fear Affecting Your Leadership?
Christian leaders often struggle with fear. This article explores how fear affecting leadership can impact decision-making and how to overcome it.
What I’ve Learned About Volunteer Engagement
When paid staff are doing much of the ministry, they arent as motivated to raise up other lay leaders and build volunteer engagement.
Ed Stetzer: Leading Missional Ministry
Our congregations are the resource we need to be a force of change for Christ in our world, and its time to lead them to do just that through leading missional ministry.
3 Aspects of Leadership That Can’t Be Taught: Intangible Leadership Qualities
While intangibles like leadership qualities cant be taught, they can be envisioned and, more importantly, aspired to.
When the Numbers Just Keep Going Down: Reversing Church Decline
There are no cookie-cutter solutions for reversing a church decline. Churches have unique characteristics, because they have different people. There are different reasons which cause decline.
Do You Suspect There’s Church Division Warning Signs Brewing?
Look around to see who in the church is protecting something. The bad leader who threatens to create a ruckus if you really ask him to step down. The leadership team that rebels against sharing any of their power. Identifying church division warning signs can help prevent conflict.
3 Options When Your Church No Longer Reflects the Community
There are three ways a church can respond when the demographic of a community changes.
When Church Growth Stalls
When you find that you’ve stopped growing, you’ve probably exhausted the capacity of leaders in your organization. Is your staff ready to lead at a higher level? Are your volunteer leaders ready to duplicate their teams with a second leader?