Ephesians 4 says that the calling of church leaders is not simply to do the work of ministry but to equip “the saints for the work of ministry.” A study by Lifeway Research revealed that most church leaders affirm the importance of training and development but only 1 in 4 ...
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Leadership Pipeline


Provide Your Church a Training Map, Not Menu –
When it comes to recruiting skills and training, we often focus on transferring knowledge. I would like to shift that toward a focus on competency and mastery. Traditional education is concerned with display of knowledge through testing. Consider how a person spends years in a ...
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Stretch Assignments –
By Daniel Im
I have three young children, so our house is well stocked with Band-Aids.
Not adhesive bandages, but Band-Aids…you know, the name brand kind that have Disney-Pixar characters on them. Now before you go and think I’m raising entitled children, let me explain the ...
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Three Bad Excuses for Avoiding Leadership Development –
By Eric Geiger
Great leaders intuitively know they are responsible for future leadership, and all leaders have heard these catch phrases: “There is no success without succession” and “Work yourself out of a job and you will always have a job.” Yet few leaders plan and prioritize ...
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Three Leadership Pipeline Traps and How to Resolve Them –
By Rob Jacbos
Any church or ministry that is interested in growth must then be interested in growing leaders. There is a critical lens through which to view this through. The standard approach is seeing those involved in running the church or the ministry, be they staff or ...
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More Great Quotes from Pipeline 2017 –
Recently, we hosted our second annual Pipeline Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Pipeline is a gathering for for creating constructs to develop leaders and plan for succession at every level of your church or organization, from volunteers to senior leadership and staff. Far ...
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