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 […]
Church Planting with Jeff Leake
Podcast interview with Bill Easum
Is Your Church Destined for Smallness?
How many church leaders does it take to change a lightbulb? I’m not sure, but in many churches it takes 50 percent or more of the sitting board members to make virtually every decision. And there’s a church growth correlation that shows the more leaders involved in management decisions, the smaller the church’s potential. Case […]
Are Most Pastors Averse to Being Held Accountable?
“So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.” Romans 14:12 I’ve long been a proponent of measuring results. I believe if you don’t measure the results of something, odds are you’re not going to be as successful as you would be if you kept stats on your ministry. For […]