Winning the New and Old Front Doors
Nine times out of 10, guests will not just show up unsure of what to expect because they will have reviewed the church's website and social media pages looking for the flavor of your local church.
Leadership
Battling Church Familiarity in Your Church
Has your church become so comfortable in the familiar that it misses what guests are experiencing? Guests will break through the confines of the comfortable and see Christ, or they will see the church stuck in church familiarity and never return.
3 Ways to Finish Strong in an Ending Season
Leading the local church is hard enough, but leading when youre unsure what to do next is challenging. Finishing strong in your season will look different for everyone. But everyone can complete the overall tasks they have been called to and meet them with Gods excellence in mind.
3 Ways to Help the Church Navigate Leading Change
As a church leader, you want to see God’s will done in the local church. Change, however, takes work. Any amount of change causes pain, pushback and potential landmines that could implode your change direction. But even if people dislike change, a leader should still lead change when leading church change. For every season in the church’s life, God […]
Develop a Mindset of Service
The missional leader understands it takes all (children, youth, and adults) to develop a mission mindset. Transformation does not happen overnight but will occur once everyone across all demographics strives to live out their daily missional tasks.
Connecting Cross-Generationally to Reach the Community
For too long in the North American church, we have focused too much on how missions get done and not enough effort on who is doing missions.
What Do You Believe About Yourself?
Be a leader who tells a story of redemption, renewal, and righteousness living in all aspects of your life. Put away the negative words you describe to yourself, and begin to hear the positive comments that God poured into your leadership from others around.
Don’t Stop Writing Your Leadership Story
It is only when you desire change and are willing to take steps to produce change that change will come. What difference do you want to occur in your leadership story?
The Pastor and Enduring
So how do you know if you’re running well—or even running in the right direction? The answer to that may look different depending on how far along you are in your pastoral course.
Get Rooted Where You Serve
Sometimes, a leader has to survive the moment, buy time to survey the surroundings, and figure out what to do next.