Author: Paul Alexander
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Top Posts of 2017 #4 “Stop Hiring People to Work at your Church”
I just wrote this post back in October and it jumped up the Top-10 chart quickly! It addresses one of the most significant and common lids to growth that churches experience. Churches love to hire people. I mean they really love to hire people. Often times when churches are just starting off, staff members will…
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Top Posts of 2017 #5 “Why Leading by Example doesn’t Work”
We’ve finally made it into the top 5 in this year’s countdown and it starts off with another popular post about team dynamics and leadership development. Leading by example sounds like the right thing to do, doesn’t it? After all thousands of pages written on leadership, by leadership experts can’t be wrong can they? The…
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Top Posts of 2017 #6 “6 Keys to Motivating Millennial Church Leaders”
As I already mentioned in this countdown, millennials were a popular topic on my blog this year. This is the second post in this year’s countdown that had to do with millennial church leaders. If you have any millennials on your church staff you know that they’re different. And while many traditional church leaders are…
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Top Posts of 2017 #7 “Why Churches Decline and Die”
Understanding why churches grow and decline is an annual topic of interest on my blog. While this post doesn’t cover all of the reasons a church declines, it’s a great overview of some of the major catalysts to church decline. Years ago, a church started in the Phoenix east valley. This church plant grew rapidly.…
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Top Posts of 2017 #8 “When to Invest in a Young Leader and when to Ignore them”
A lot of people in church world are trying to figure out millennials. How do reach them, motivate them, develop them, and of course how do we hand of leadership of the Church to them? So it’s no surprise that this topic was a popular one on my blog this year. Like it or not,…