Flip Your Church Step 3: Develop Congregational Unity
For some, the thought of congregational unity may be more like a fantasy than a vision of reality, and yet there are churches dotted across the nation that are not only missionally aligned, but they are unified in all they do. That doesn’t mean the members are all automatons or that everyone agrees with everything. In […]
Work Towards Role Clarity
Inculating a Shared Leadership DNA The most common threat to shared leadership DNA in organizations is role confusion among the organization’s various leadership elements. This shows up as an absence of clarity regarding the specific boundaries and functions of the board and the operational management team.  Regardless of the type of organization, it is common […]
The 20 Percent Who Could
The stats aren’t pretty. In fact, they’re pretty deplorable. But they’re nonetheless accurate. Eighty percent of all Pastoral Size to Program Size church transformations fail – 80 percent. A Pastoral Sized church is one in which the pastor is essentially the end-all, be-all of the congregational expectations. They attend virtually every function and event. They […]
National Park
The last twenty years of North American culture has been moving from what I call a National Park world to a world that can only be described as a Jungle. Consider the following comparisons: National Park •      Are neatly laid out •      Predictable and slow to change •      Warn you about dangers animals •      Provide […]