By Todd Adkins
What ministry is most essential to your church right now and how do you carry it out?
My favorite explanation of these approaches comes from John Kotter and Dan Cohen in The Heart of Change. They summarize the rational approach as ...
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New Volunteer Roles This Fall
By Todd Adkins
In wake of COVID-19, we have a tremendous opportunity to build an army of volunteers and leaders in our churches, not just an audience of spectators.
New volunteer roles are emerging during this season, and many existing roles must be adapted to ensure ...
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5LQ Episode 441: Philip Langford
In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Philip Langford, president of IJM. They discuss how churches can work with IJM through Freedom Sunday and about leading through crisis.
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"We are all about ...
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Unseen Leadership Episode 42: Dean Inserra on Growing in Self Awareness
In this episode of the Unseen Leadership podcast, Chandler Vannoy and Josh Hunter are joined by Dean Inserra who is the founding and lead pastor of City Church in Tallahassee, FL, and the author of The Unsaved Christian.
During their conversation, they discuss the journey of ...
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What Matters Now in Your Church?
By Todd Adkins
What ministry is most essential to your church, and how do you carry it out?
Often, leaders recognize a change is desperately needed, so they choose the latest and greatest plan. This plan is thorough, clear to communicate, has great visuals, and can be ...
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Churches and COVID-19 #2: Mariners Church with Eric Geiger
In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Eric Geiger, senior pastor of Mariners Church. They discuss the following questions:
What are the current government restrictions in your location?How have you led through this ...
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How to Lead Rapid Change: 7 Steps to Agile Leadership
By Todd Adkins
In the past a leader may have led one or two major changes throughout his or her entire career. And now major changes happen every 5 to 10 years, and it feels like every 5 to 10 minutes. This is our lot as leaders. This is the stewardship job and responsibility ...
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7 Things Leaders Who Multiply Leaders Know
By Carey Nieuwhof
The vast majority of churches and leaders run like a mom and pop grocery store; they do it all themselves. Compare that to a supermarket where there are levels of leadership and structure for scalability. I want to examine seven things that leaders who ...
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Churches and COVID-19 #1: Community Christian Church with Dave Ferguson
In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Dave Ferguson, author of Exponential, Hero Maker, and Finding Your Way Back to God. They discuss the following questions:
What are the current government restrictions in your ...
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7 Steps to Agile Leadership
By Todd Adkins
In the past, a leader may have led one or two major changes throughout his or her career. Now, major changes happen every 5-10 years, if not more often. This is the lot we have been given as leaders. Two things are happening, change in the world is increasing ...
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90 Second Leadership: Three Groups During Change: Napoleon’s Rule of Thirds
Today, I want to talk to you about Napoleon’s Rule of Thirds. Now, it might sound weird for us to talk about this in connection with church life, but I think there’s a lot we can learn here.
Napoleon said there were always three distinct divisions of people in his army. There ...
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Response to Abuse by a Church Leader, Part 1
By Brad Hambrick
This is the first of a three-part series in which we will be providing guidance on how to respond if a church leader is abusive in their role as pastor or ministry leader. We are providing unique guidance for situations like:
- A pastor or staff member is ...
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