Everyone I speak with wants to lead a successful church or business. While we can learn much from failure, it is something people rarely want to experience. So when attendance is declining, receipts are down, and momentum has been lost, identify the reasons why and providing adequate solutions is why you are in leadership. In […]
Leadership is a subject that is shallow enough for everyone to wade in to and deep enough no one will ever reach the bottom. Those are my thoughts when I look at this week’s Top 10 list. The following subjects are covered – expanding your platform, burnout, staffing issues, generosity, creativity, and preaching just to […]
Let’s go back five years to September 12th, 2011. You analyze the attendance numbers of your suburban church. You run 500 in attendance with annual giving of $750,000. Your evaluation is you have a good, solid church where lives are being changed. Great things appear to be ahead for this congregation. Now let’s return to […]
Whether you lead a church, business, non-profit, or athletic organization, you want it to be successful. Few things are as worse as going to church, the office, or to a team you are part of knowing you have little chance for succeed. Everyone wants to be part of a winner. No one wants to be […]
One thing I rarely discuss but is a BIG DEAL for Christian leaders is the hiring and firing process which takes place at churches. From the feedback I receive, we are fairly weak as a leadership community in this area. Therefore, I want to make you aware of a number of quality posts written this […]
This is a post I have wanted to write for a long time. There are countless articles written on how to become a successful leader. In fact, I have added many logs to that fire. But there are very few posts, articles and books written on how to REMAIN a successful leader. Lasting leadership is […]
John Maxwell famously said, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” When you consider four of five churches are plateaued or declining, we must then look at those in church leadership as an area where we could improve. I am HUGE fan of pastors but am seeing a great need to increase the leadership skill, capacity […]
