Category: Spiritual Formation
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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 #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,…
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Why a Teaching Team is a Better Approach to Teaching at your Church
Although the idea of a teaching team is not a new idea, I’m surprised at the amount of churches across the country that have not embraced this approach to preaching in their weekend worship services. Don’t hear what I’m not saying: I’m not advocating that you use the “main stage” to develop communicators. Don’t experiment…
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Does your Church need to Sacrifice something Sacred?
Knowing when to end a ministry can be tough, taking the right approach to how to end it can be even more difficult. Starting a new ministry initiative at your church is usually fun, exciting and is often full of new engagement with new people and is typically coupled with momentum. If your church has…
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A Sneaky way to Change the Culture of your Church Staff Team
The church staff at Sun Valley Community Church (the church I have the pleasure of serving at) just did something really unique. It wasn’t complicated or particularly flashy and it didn’t make a big public impact on the church. In fact the church body doesn’t really even know about it. But I believe it will have…