3 Questions to Uncover Your Church Structure’s Health
How Healthy is Your Church Structure?
Leadership
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5 Reasons Your Structure Could Be Hurting You
All churches – regardless of denomination and affiliation – are organized around some form of central leadership hierarchy. Most models come out of the business world and consists of numerous committees with a chair and…
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Does This Resonate With You?
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Teilhard de Chardin Joseph Campbell in the Power of Myth writes, “All great wisdom traditions agree on one…
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I was Just Curious, Secrets to Great Leadership
Maybe you heard the joke about meetings, it is where common sense takes a vacation. But what if you came into your meetings with curiosity instead of resignation? Or maybe you heard the one about…
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Leading from the Middle: How to be a Sandwich and Not Get Eaten Alive
Many of you are leaders, you are over people, but you also have a boss. You are over and you are under; you are in the middle. You are a sandwich leader. When people think…
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Where Have All the Q-tips Gone?
My wife and I affectionately refer to them as “Q-tips,” the white-haired men and women who week after week faithfully attend church. For forty years I have listened to church leaders sweating and worrying about…
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What a Hot Dog Stand Taught Me About Leadership
I once worked with a part-time music director who supplemented her income in a unique way—she ran a hot dog stand. Not a restaurant, not a food truck—an old-fashioned rolling cart she pushed through the…
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Hope has a Driver: How to Reclaim Your Agency
Do you ever feel like your days are steering themselves, that life is happening to you instead of through you? That’s what life without agency feels like.
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From Duty to Growth: Discovering the Mindset That Changes Everything
What would it mean for you, your team, your organization to focus on learning and growing and not worry about success or failure? Would you take some shots and miss? Every athlete does…but what if you made it? You see none of us really know what we are capable of until we do it…and then the goalposts move a little further out.
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What is the Secret Sauce the Church is Missing?
My BBQ ribs are kind of famous in our family. They love it when I grill either ribs or chicken and put on my secret sauce that makes it irresistible. We would like to believe…
