What’s a Leader to Do?
It was a train wreck in the making. The senior pastor had been called when the church was averaging about 400 in worship and he led a growth initiative that took the church to nearly 1000. But between the 400 and the 1000 came a revelation to the church’s leadership, including the board. The senior pastor […]
An interview from one of Americas premier church planters
Bill Easum’s interview with Bob Roberts
The Illusion of “Fair”
“But that’s not fair!” These are words I expect to hear from my young grandchildren … not words I expect to hear from adults, let alone mature Christians. But I hear them nonetheless. “We can’t appoint Frank to an elder’s position … he doesn’t participate in any adult faith formation groups.” “But that’s not fair […]
What Mainline Pastors Can Learn from Non-Mainline Planters
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been conducting interviews with pastors of church planting churches, and a couple of things keep reoccurring in all of the interviews. I thought I would single them out and show what mainline denominations could learn from them. Church Planting Common Denominators A Kingdom orientation is the number one […]
Are You the Bottleneck
I get the Harvard Business Review Management Tip of the Day during the week and had to share this one. (BTW, I highly recommend HBR for pastors … it’s worth the expense.) This tip was particularly insightful because in our our experience, pastors regularly suffer from this malady (and so do most church leaders, truth-be-told). […]
Steps to Revitalization
For the life of me I don’t understand why anyone would try to turn a church around. I did and I’m glad I did. Still, when I consider that the vast majority of pastors who try either fail or lose their job, I have to wonder why they would try… or why I tried. I […]