By Thom Rainer
Comparing your church to another church can be one of the worst things you do as a church leader.
To be clear, I am not referring to learning from other churches. We can always learn from our peers and our sister congregations.
But comparison for the sake of ...
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Pastors
How Insecurity Hurts the Pastor and the Church –
by Ronnie Floyd
Insecurity is a major factor that prevents pastors and churches from being focused on their mission. It eliminates opportunities for evangelism, planting churches, ministry expansion, and making disciples because it creates conflict in the Church. I have even ...
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How to Build a Recruiting Culture –
Building a recruiting culture is foundational to leadership pipeline because it proactively cultivates development within the church. You have probably heard me say before that leadership development is both poetry and plumbing. We will start with the poetry that provides the ...
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4 Ways Leaders Can Express Gratitude to Those They Manage –
By Eric Geiger
Max Depree once said that the best people on your team are really volunteers, no matter if you pay them or not. They are volunteers because they can utilize their skills and talent elsewhere and they choose to utilize them on your team. Which means, of course, ...
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How a Leadership Pipeline Creates a Recruiting Culture –
Churches consist of many groups and subgroups with both formal and informal hierarchical layers. We must recognize that churches don’t drift toward simplicity. Churches drift toward complexity over the course of time, regardless of size. Two modern phenomena add complexities to ...
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Good and Bad Reasons Not to Tackle Problems –
by Brian Dodridge
If you’re a leader, you see problems. Many times you’ll see them before others do. But what if as you see these problems, and you choose not to engage them?
When a leader chooses not to engage a problem in their area of influence, I can think of at least two ...
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