Author: Paul Alexander
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Top Posts of 2017 #9 “5 Proficiencies of Great Church Staff Teams”
Hiring and building the right teams was a popular topic on my blog this year. This one was one of the most read and shared. Great Church Staff Teams are full of team members who not only care deeply about people and are passionate about the ministry; they’re actually proficient in what they are doing.…
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Top Posts of 2017 #10 “What makes a Great Executive Pastor Great?”
For the next couple of days I’m going to be counting down the top 10 posts from 2017 here on Helping Churches Make Vision Real. These are the posts that generated the most traffic, comments, and were the most shared on social media. The most popular topics this year had to do with developing young…
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4 Questions to Shift your Thinking about Church Mergers
Through my experience working with churches I’ve discovered that the idea of “Church Mergers” is met with a variety of emotions, many which are negative. I’ve found that some view it as a cannibalistic way for growing churches to gobble up smaller struggling churches to enlarge their own footprint and grow their brand, not the…
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Why Visionaries Paint Pictures not Wordsmith Statements
Right now, there are churches across the country that are working on their “ministry theme” for the new year. They’ve gotten their Senior Leadership Team together to come up with a pithy statement that they can build a sermon series around and many have even built a campaign around this statement to make sure all…
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What do you do when you Don’t Agree with your Pastor?
If you work on staff at a church, chances are at some point you’re going to disagree with your pastor. That’s okay, you’re human, it would be naive to think you’re always going to agree with your pastor. But what you do with that disagreement is where things can get really messy. Messy for you, and…