Tag: movement
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A Multisite Leadership Conversation
I recently had a conversation with the Unstuck Group about multisite church leadership and here are a couple of highlights from the conversation: Caroline: When leading a multisite church, what is the most important leadership tool to carry with you? Paul: Hands down, your culture. You reproduce what you are, not what you think you are or wish…
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Recent Thoughts about Church Planting from Ed Stetzer
Last week Sun Valley Community Church (the church I have the privilege of serving at) hosted Ignite, the national church planting conference for Converge, which is one of the most successful church planting movements in the country. While there Ed Stetzer, who among other things serves as the Executive Director of LifeWay Research had the…
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5 reasons why your bridge event is leading people nowhere
How do we get from here, to there? From where we are, to where we want to be? And how do we get people to go with us? The best process is always a one step process. As a result of that compact truth, companies and churches have been intent on pursuing the elegance of…
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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…