Summer Priorities – Tip 4: Personal Mission
Personal mission is the intersection of your spiritual gifts and heartbursts for strangers. Wise leaders invest their extra leisure time to revisit and focus their personal mission IN LIFE (not just their leadership vision for the church). Summer is actually not the best time to refine and explore your “heartbursts” for strangers because […]
CPR
By Kris Tenny-Brittian Most of us are aware of how important it is to know CPR—Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation—for the saving of a life. However, not enough of us know, let alone practice, another form of CPR that is just as important and life-giving. In this case, CPR stand for conceive, perceive, and receive and represents […]
The Success Factor
When it comes to church leadership, there seems to be a word that sends more shivers of horror down their spines than the combination of Stephen King, M. Night Shyamalan, and Boris Karloff could ever pull off. Indeed, this word evokes a fear is so insidious that it’s paralyzing and many church leaders run for […]
Diversity
Diversity is a loaded word in the church … especially in the Mainline. A church that can claim to embrace diversity immediately gets warm smiles from judicatory officials and others “in the know.” Indeed, diversity is seen by many, if not most, to be one of the most desirable characteristics of a faithful church. Whether […]
The Effective Mission Statement
A mission statement is the rudder that points the ship in the direction it’s called to go, and therefore must be sure, strong, and clear so that there is no doubt by anyone where the ship is going. The purpose (mission) of the church is to make disciples. Each church must wrestle with its setting […]
The Two Deadly Sins of Omission
There are two primary mistakes church leaders make that keep their church’s DNA* from being embedded/replicated in their congregation. Both are deadly, in terms of mission focus, alignment, and excitement, and both are equal in their devastating affects. *(DNA = Mission, Values, Vision, Strategy, Beliefs, and Behaviors) The first mistake can be summed up in […]