Tag: focus
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6 Indicators You’re Leading an Insider Focused Church
How do you know if you’re leading an insider-focused church? Here are 6 indicators that you and your team can use to evaluate your church: #1 Language The language you choose to use is important because it both reflects and builds culture at the same time. There are all kinds of ways this goes wrong…
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Creating an Outsider Focused Culture in your Church
Becoming Insider Focused is Natural: It’s natural to be insider focused, because what comes natural to us is us. It is not natural to let other people go before us, think about what others prefer before our own preferences, or meet the needs of others before meeting our own needs first. We are naturally self…
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Resistance keeps you upright
After listening to the guide do their best to convince everyone in the raft that they were likely to drown on the way down the Royal Gorge this past week in Colorado, she finished her little speech by stating, “the best thing you can do to stay in the boat is paddle hard.” She explained…
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How to say no to ministry
One of the more difficult tasks to accomplish in leadership is to relentlessly guard the vision of the organization. As they grow organizations, including churches, naturally drift towards complexity. People have good ideas that require action, development, project management, resource allocation, and organization that at surface level seem to enhance and strengthen the organization. These…