Author: Paul Alexander

  • Hope is Not a Strategy

    Hoping things will get better at your church won’t help things actually get better at your church. In fact the opposite may actually be true. The Bible says this about hope in Proverbs 13:12 “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” In other words when we place…

  • My Top 10 Church Leadership Posts of All-Time

    My Top 10 Church Leadership Posts of All-Time

    More than six years ago I reluctantly began blogging. I started this journey kicking and screaming. I didn’t want to start a blog. After all what would I have to say? Who would listen? Did the Christian community really need another voice in a conversation that already seemed pretty loud to me? What started as…

  • How to Change the Results at your Church Before they Happen

    How to Change the Results at your Church Before they Happen

    Management expert Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets improved.” In other words, if you can define how things have performed in the past and define your current reality then you should be able to make changes and improve future results. To a large extent this is true, but not always. Churches measure what…

  • Leadership Summit 2016: Wilfredo De Jesus

    Leadership Summit 2016: Wilfredo De Jesus

    Wilfredo De Jesus, who serves as the Senior Pastor at New Life Covenant Church wrapped up Leadership Summit this year with a spiritual challenge. A leader who stops learning, stops leading No one drifts upstream or towards holiness It takes effort and determination A map offers many routes to get to the same place but…

  • Leadership Summit 2016: Horst Schulze

    Leadership Summit 2016: Horst Schulze

    CEO of the Capella Hotel Group and the Founding President of the Ritz Carlton, Horst Schulze was back at Leadership Summit talking about putting the customer first. There is confusion about the difference between leadership and management To be successful in business you have to be more sufficient to the market you serve than your…