Separating Vision and Management
Separating Visioning and Management By: Tom Bandy Whatever your organizational model might be, it is crucial to separate the visionary and management functions. Most churches (especially small churches) fail to do so, even though their polities might designate “elders” and “stewards”, or “deacons” and “trustees” and so on. As soon as the separation becomes […]
Mission Statements
For the week of January 03, 2005 Mission Statements By: Tom Bandy Biblical visions are revealed, never created. That principle is forgotten so often! Churches accommodate to the corporate culture around them by assuming vision to be a function of strategic planning. Instead, vision is a function of adult faith formation … an extension of […]
Supervising Staff
Supervising Staff In order to supervise staff you have to have the power to hire and fire. Most churches don’t allow the lead pastor to have such power. This is one of the key reasons churches don’t develop team based ministries. It’s like a football team where the coach isn’t allowed to select or terminate […]
Timely Action
One of the mistakes I see pastors routinely making is the failure to terminate a staff person the moment they decide they can’t cut the mustard. It’s been my experience that the sooner an ineffective person is terminated the more likely it is that the pastor will survive the conflict. Most Pastors wait too long […]
Worship Evangelism
According to several contacts I’ve had over the past two years, both in the U.S. and outside of In our country, worship evangelism seems to be increasingly the worship of choice. By worship evangelism is just the opposite of seeker sensitive worship. It means that one of the goals of worship is for the non-believer […]
Four Keys to Explosive Growth
1. You have to bring in a lot of people. You wont achieve this in your office spending hours on a sermon or program planning or anything in house. In other words somehow you have to get the word out to the public. 2. You have to keep those you bring in. The best method […]