While we want to create safety, we honestly can’t—at least for the most part. Jesus certainly didn’t play it safe. His ministry was risky from day one.
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While we want to create safety, we honestly can’t—at least for the most part. Jesus certainly didn’t play it safe. His ministry was risky from day one.
Why am I confident that we can do it? We have each other, good resources, the willingness to do it, and more than anything else, I believe with all my heart that the Lord is with us.
While there are lots of lessons to be learned from this research, for us as church leaders, the big take-away here is that what matters most is group interaction.
As summer comes to a close, we reflect on the simplicity summer activities offer as we seek to facilitate connection and belonging within Christian community.
A truly multiethnic, multigenerational, and multi-perspective church values, discusses, encourages, supports, and implements ideas and dreams that flow from all echelons of the congregation.
Church leadership is so weird. As I observe church leadership teams, including my own, I think everyone feels it. Who is the boss? Um, maybe no one.
We announced this week that David is joining our team. For those of you who don’t already know him, allow me to introduce you to my new boss!
As the created world hosts humanity, we have much to learn from the soil, from the seeds. Stretching toward the light, cultivated hearts propagate God’s mission.
The answer is not for your female ministers to be less; it’s for all of us to lead in such a way that only God’s name can be praised.
In far too many places, the structure of leadership—the way in which decisions and deliberations are handled—creates obstacles for the congregation’s mission.
This is a book about how people actually think. It helps us to understand how we make decisions in the real world. (Nonfiction)
In seeking to find the essence of what it means to be an elder for a local congregation, it is helpful to focus on three things—being, doing and process—framed in three key questions.
How might elders and ministers develop stronger relational ties with each other and their congregations?
Numerous factors suggest how critical it is for ministers and elders to work together collaboratively and to spend a great deal of time in prayer.
When an organization faces the normal shifts and changes that accompany any living body, both task and relational efforts are critical.
When all is said and done, a critical component of leadership is how to relate to people! One way to explore this critical aspect of leadership is through the lens of emotional intelligence.
Clear decision-making processes are vital for healthy leadership, but the conversations that help to set guidelines can often become complex!
Our brains weigh us down with negative assumptions that ensure we fall short of the merciful, charitable attitudes we would like to manifest toward others.
Peter Steinke presents cogent wisdom to guide leaders to be non-anxious in the midst of all sorts of anxiety-producing realities that are found in churches today.