Author: Paul Alexander
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18 Churchy Things the Class of 2018 Won’t Get
Around this time of year, the mainstream media and Internet meme-machines like to remind us how old we are by telling us all of the things this year’s high school graduates won’t remember because, well, they weren’t even born yet. That list is usually all pop culture, technology and political references. But what about church?…
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7 Ways Church Leaders Unknowingly Lead their Churches to be Stuck
Churches get stuck for all kinds of reasons. Typically, when growth slows, and things begin to stall the first inclination many church leaders have is to look at external forces acting upon them to figure out why things are moving the wrong direction. While there are external reasons that churches begin to move the wrong…
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5 Ways Successful Church Leaders Think Differently
Successful church leaders naturally think differently than the majority of church leaders. It’s one of the things that set them apart. The good news is you can learn to think just like them. #1 They think about who they’re trying to Reach instead of who they’re trying to Keep Another way to say this, is…
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Why the Sky is NOT the Limit for Young Church Leaders
The sky is not the limit for your church leaders, it’s just not. And we do them a disservice to feed them lines and fill their heads with ideas that just aren’t true. It’s one thing to tell a young leader that you believe in them and encourage them, it’s another to just lie to…
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How Church People can Wreck a Church Plant
New churches reach new people, right? That’s the prevailing thought. Unfortunately, the prevailing thought doesn’t always prevail. I’ve talked to plenty of church planters who were excited to plant and reach new people in a new community only to open their doors and find their new church flooded with disgruntled church people who left their…