Leadership
« Previous EntriesChurches Need A Leadership Pipeline
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008I know there is a leadership book called The Leadership Pipeline. I’m not really referencing their work as I am just setting out to read it this week. What I mean by a leadership pipeline is that churches need to develop leaders internally.
A couple of years ago I heard McManus discuss the problem [...]
Encouragement to Pastors From 1 Timothy
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. (1 Timothy 5.17)
Before I jump into, what I think will be an encouragement to pastors (it has been for me this morning) I need to set the stage a bit.
Paul’s logic here indicates the two [...]
The Teenage Girl Syndrome
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Do you ever have these times where you feel like you’re always the one initiating with people and that goes unreciprocated? Always calling to meet up with someone but it never happens or if it does it’s begrudging? The, “let’s get together sometime” that you receive turns into, “I’m super busy…”
I don’t know [...]
The Importance of Goal-Setting in Church Leadership
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008If you aim for nothing you will hit it every time
I know too many people in ministry who strive for nothing tangible. They are just doing activitity (in the hopes that ministry happens) but have no real aim. Sure they have some vague idea about making disciples, growing people in faith, etc. But they have [...]
Ministry Team Meeting
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Sunday we had our monthly Ministry Team Meeting. This group is composed of those who are leading the different ministry areas of our church right now. In the last month I have been leading us to make the turn to focus on mid-range strategy (8-10 months). We only meet once a month [...]
Strengths: Competition - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008I’ve been thinking a lot about the Strengths Finder and subsequently my own strengths as we are going to begin our first Partner Connection this coming Sunday. If you are unfamiliar with the Strengths Finder check this out.
Basically the SF assesses your top 5 themes of strength. The idea is here are 5 [...]
Resources For You to Check Out
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Recently I have been listening to some interviews from 9Marks while I drive (one earphone in since my stereo was jacked) and while I mow. They have some really helpful stuff and you might want to check it out.
The New Perspective on Paul with Simon Gathercole and Peter Williams. (audio)
You may have heard about [...]
Visit to Westside Family Church
Monday, June 23rd, 2008With the fam out of town last night I loaded up the mini-van with some peeps and we headed over to Westside Family Church in Lenexa to check out the 5pm service, The Well.
After a 45 minute drive we arrived to their mammoth Lenexa campus. While it is a big building it isn’t outlandish. [...]
One Thing That Ticks Me Off…This Week
Friday, June 20th, 2008People who insinuate that because I don’t work at a job that requires heavy lifting or work at a job that requires me to sit in a cube or work at a job that requires me to sell something that somehow what I do doesn’t count as real work.
To steal a line from Chris Beggs: [...]
Learning Through Evaluation 2
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Learning Through Evaluation 1
In part one I briefly described the general benefits I’ve seen for myself in my first attempt at a quasi 360 evaluation process.
In this post I want to process some of the specifics that I learned from the evaluation process. In some ways this is for my own benefit, writing like [...]