So you want to bring about change but you’re afraid of the pushback that you know the change will create? Totally understand that. So you’re tempted to do what many leaders have done. Instead of bringing about the deep or…
I was listening to a podcast recently that confirmed what many of us have intuitively known for a long time. People are having spiritual conversations every day…they just never think of turning to a preacher or the church for answers. I’m…
If there’s one characteristic I see in successful leaders, it’s passion. The more church leaders I connect with, the more I see this trend: leaders of growing churches (and growing organizations) have a white hot passion for their mission. You…
You hear it all the time. I completely understand why a growing number of people are bailing on church. Even people who used to lead in the church often stop attending (here are 9 reasons why church leaders do that).…
Sometimes leadership can seem so overwhelming. In reality, though, there are some leadership hacks that make it simpler than it first appears. In many ways, great leaders master some very basic things that other people miss. The advice in this…
Almost every Christian leader I talk to has a passion for reaching people who don’t know Christ. But as we’ve seen before, our culture and church attendance patterns are changing so rapidly that many of the methods we’ve used to tell…
There’s an urgent question many church leaders are asking as we all try to figure out how to respond as people who attend church now attend less often. The question is this: How do you interact with infrequent church attendees who…
Tired of hearing bad news all the time? Even in growing and ‘successful’ organizations, leaders receive a disproportionate share of bad news. Why is that? As I tell my staff team all the time, we get paid to solve the problems…
The issue of spiritual maturity seems to provoke one of the super strange conversations in the North American and Western church today. Here’s the bizarre part: some Christians end up criticizing other Christians for not being ‘deep’ enough or committed enough to…
Happy January! So…what conversations are you planning on having with your team this year? One of the things I love about a new year is the Top 10 lists that help us look reflect back and plan ahead. They can…
Everything has its season. And the season of the cool church is, in many ways, coming to an end. There was an era when simply being a cooler church than the church down the road helped churches reach unchurched people. There…
Well into their twenties, or even thirties, many young adults are still reliant on their parents for financial help and increasingly postpone things like marriage, responsibility and their future. Delayed adolescence is a growing issue for parents, leaders as well…