Tag: Leadership
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Leaders Avoid Bad Decisions
Leaders have to make decisions. Sometimes leaders are even paid to make decisions for a living. Most CEOs are not involved in the day-to-day execution of making products for their company. Instead, they are paid to make decisions about the future of the company. Even if you’re not a CEO-level leader, as a ministry leader […]
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Leaders Develop Leaders
One of my goals as a pastor is to have a bunch of mini-Chris’s running around the church. I want to people to think like me, act like me, and lead like me. Scary, huh!? But the apostle Paul embodied such a goal when he called to the Corinthians to be like him: “Be imitators […]
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Leaders Plan
“Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable” Dwight. D. Eisnehower “Winging it” is not an acceptable ministry strategy. Show me a leader who doesn’t spend time planning and I’ll show you an ineffective leader. Planning is one of the most effective uses of a time for leaders because it sharpens their focus on what is […]
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Leaders Think Culture
I’ve done things in my life that I’m not proud of, and after the fact, I have thought to myself, “That’s not me.” Maybe you’ve had a similar experience. We can probably all relate to those times when we surprise ourselves by how bad we can be. What motivates us to do those things? While […]
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Leaders Think Systems
When was the last time you felt like you had too much to do and not enough time to do it? What was your solution? Was it to “just work harder”? Or maybe you threw your hands up in despair and just walked away from the pile of working sitting on your desk or kitchen […]
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How do you actually share your life with other adults?
It is totally obvious to state, but here it is: Jesus was a genius disciple-maker. And to make disciples what did Jesus do? He shared his life and he shared the word of God. His practices influences our practices. The practices of sharing life and the word are the two foundational pillars for building a […]
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You Only Have a Compass, Not a Map
When you’re leading a ministry, you only have a compass, not a map. You can’t predict the future and trying to plan out every little thing often does not work. Yet the allure of planning runs strong in many leaders. Map-Based Planning We often treat planning for ministry like we have a map in our hands: a […]
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Culture and Leadership: My Story of Coming to Grips with Change
My wife was the first woman to pray during Sunday morning worship service in the history of our church. It was Mother’s Day 2014 when my wife ascended the steps on the stage during the worship service, walked over to the microphone and prayed for the mothers and the women who desired to be mothers […]
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Habit Stacking
You win at life and leadership by doing the basics. How do you actually do them? Well, first you need to know what the basics of life and leadership are. For my vocation, I have distilled out five essential habits for Christian leadership. They are: Daily prayer Consistent exercise Evening routine Weekly Sabbath Weekly Planning […]
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Do the Basics
Do the basics. You nothing without the basics. So much of success in life in general, and leadership in particular, is merely doing the basics. There is a large market for sharing the latest leadership hack, trick, or steroid which will make things better or cause your church to grow. It won’t happen. Anything good […]