by Andrew Hebert
In Part 1, I discussed the first five of ten practical priorities when you arrive at a new church. Here are the remaining five priorities for a pastor or leader who is serving in a new church or organization.
Build positive momentum by accumulating and ...
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10 Practical First Year Priorities at a New Church – Part 1 –
by Andrew Hebert
What are the most important priorities for a pastor who begins serving at a new church? I began pastoring my present church a few months ago. This is the fifth church I’ve served in a pastoral capacity. Each church has been a different size, in a different ...
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10 Ways Pastors Can be Bad Bosses –
by Thom Rainer
I’ve been working with pastors and those they serve for over three decades.
That means two things: I have a lot of experience and I am old.
In the course of three decades, I have seen some pastors thrive and some pastors fail. And I have seen two common reasons ...
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3 Leadership Lessons from Jerry Seinfeld –
by Eric Geiger
I recently listened to Daniel McGinn’s interview with Jerry Seinfeld on the HBR Ideacast (also published in the January/February issue of Harvard Business Review). In the interview, Jerry Seinfeld talked about how nine years was a magical number in terms of the ...
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Why You Should Stop Using Your Personality Test As A Crutch –
Are you an otter or a golden retriever? Are you a “D” or an “I”? Are you an “ENTJ” or “INFP”? Are you a green or a red?
The list could go on and on, for this is the vocabulary of the personality test. I’ve taken several of them myself, and I am consistently amazed at how ...
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7 Common Mistakes Churches Make When They Have An Interim Pastor –
by Thom S. Rainer
“Interim” sounds like a pregnant pause anticipating something down the road.
So when you put the adjective in front of “pastor” or “church,” it just feels like less than ideal.
It does not have to be that way. The interim period between two pastors can be a ...
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