Five Steps To Staff Effectiveness
Cialis side effects Pastors are notorious for hiring and then either totally abdicating leadership to new staff members or micromanaging their every move. Give your staff the following five vision statements, and you’ll move closer to the right balance between abdication and micromanagement. This is where we are going. “We are becoming a church of thousands in […]
Staff to Your Weaknesses
Good leaders not only know and play to their strengths; they are painfully aware of their weaknesses as well. The difference between a good leader and a great leader, however, is what they do about those weaknesses. Good leaders know their weaknesses and too often expend untold resources and energy in converting those weaknesses into […]
Play to Your Strengths
One of the most disconcerting practices I find in the church is the near obsession we have with our faults and our weaknesses. I’m not sure who to blame for what amounts to bad theology, but it seems that Augustine, Calvin, Luther, and Wesley may all share some of it. Or perhaps it’s the whole […]
Inside Information
Over the years, when I’ve sat in interviews (on both sides of the table) I’ve heard the ever-popular question “What would you say are your main strengths and what are your weaknesses?” many times. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that most readers will have had to answer that question sometime […]
The Primacy of Preaching Part Two
Following my reading of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ classic book, Preaching and Preachers, I want to address one of the most common objections to most of his conclusions. Many people respond to Lloyd-Jones by simply saying it’s no longer 1950. And that’s right; it isn’t. But here is his response in my own words. His approach is […]
One Person, One Passion, One Position
I’ve yet to enter a congregation where their biggest complaint was that they had too many leaders and not enough ministry for their leaders to do. Obviously, the opposite is the rule. However, over the years I’ve discovered that, except in churches embroiled in conflict or in some other downward spiral, churches generally have all […]