Tag: leadership
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10 Articles that will Accelerate the Multisite Movement at your Church
Currently there are more than 8,000 multisite churches across America and more than 1,600 mega churches (churches of more than 2,000 people in weekly attendance). While both are growing, the multisite church movement has outpaced the mega church movement in America. What was once seen as only a Band-Aid strategy for space issues at mega…
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Four Reasons Not to Join a Coaching Network
You work in a perfect church with a leadership development strategy that pushes you in all the right ways. You have more than enough close friends in ministry who can relate to your challenges and successes, pray for you in specific ways and provide objective outside input when needed. You’ve already arrived as a leader…
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10 Ways to Change the “We’ve Always done it That Way” Mindset
One of the most difficult things to navigate in a church is change. In fact if you lead long enough in a church you’ll eventually hear someone say, “But we’ve always done it that way.” That way was someone’s good idea and it may have been the best way at one point. But often times…
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Why Your Policies are Killing Your Leadership
I’ve written before that policies are anti-leadership statements. Most people think that due to my role as an Executive Pastor at a large church I would be the guy who embraces and loves policies. Not so much. I’m actually policy adverse. And I’m policy adverse because policies naturally undermine leadership growth. 1. Policies Abdicate Responsibility…
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Join me at Transform 2016
Dates: January 11-14, 2016 Location: Jacksonville, FloridaGet all your registration info here I want to invite you to join me at Transform 2016. Transform is not the typical church conference. And here’s why. Instead of mere inspirational talks and leadership theory, you will interact all week with ministry peers discussing leadership practice and implementation. Student…