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Category Archives: Leadership
Good to Great (Picking a Team, Building a Culture, Being a Hedghog)
Picking a team, building a culture Level 5 leaders can be slow to get started. They realize that they can’t be successful unless they’re surrounded by like-minded people. In church, this is much harder to do than in business. After … Continue reading
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How Not to Have to Fire Your Preacher: Keeping the Right Guy, Part 1
If you made a good hire, then you should feel sufficiently invested in the man that you will do what it takes to keep him. Now, ask yourself, as traumatic as leaving is on a family, why would a preacher … Continue reading
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Good to Great (Introduction, Picking the Right CEO)
Back in 2001, Jim Collins wrote one of the most important business management books ever, Good to Great. Although it’s about business, the principles are easily applied to churches, because it’s not about how to make a profit. It’s about … Continue reading
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Marketing Christianity
An Australian women’s magazine commissioned several ad agencies to propose ideas for an ad campaign to spread religion. The ideas are interesting. Check out the ads here. Be sure to check out all of them. And here is a TV … Continue reading
How Not to Have to Fire Your Preacher: Hiring the Right Guy
Well, having told everyone how to fire their preacher, it seems only fair to talk about how to keep him. I mean, firing the preacher is always traumatic for everyone, especially the preacher and his family. And studies show that … Continue reading
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The Good and Bad of Spiritual Formation, Part 2
I’m going to try to wrap this up by answering some questions. Aren’t you aware of the long tradition in Christianity of spiritual disciplines designed to bring our hearts into closer alignment with God’s will? How can you discount so … Continue reading
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The Good and Bad of Spiritual Formation (Being Formed within God’s Mission)
As I read the material quoted in the last post, I have two reactions. First, it’s indisputably true that in many churches a portion of the membership is not particularly Christ-like. There are often very few differences between the lost … Continue reading
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The Good and Bad of Spiritual Formation (Introduction)
I’ve been thinking about spiritual formation for quite a while. It’s all the rage in evangelical circles. Many churches have hired ministers of spiritual formation. We did for a while. Type “spiritual formation” into Google, and you get lots articles … Continue reading
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What’s Wrong With How We Do Church? Willow Creek Works a Cure
The editors of Christianity Today post a blog called Out of Ur. It is routinely instructive and often fascinating. One of their editors has just posted material from a seminar hosted by Willow Creek — one of the nation’s most … Continue reading
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Overseeing the Moderate Church
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 These are posts from a year or so ago, but they fit very well with the series on leading a church to change.
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