Leaders Are Built Through Fire
This was the kind of leadership Jesus taught and modeled to His disciples: a leadership born of brokenness, produced in pain, forged in the fire of suffering.
Malcolm Webber
Building Leaders
Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
Malcolm Webber
A New Opportunity for Senior Leadership
A great alternative for older pastors is the ministry once known as “interim pastorate.” Whatever you call this position, the interim pastorate isn’t what it used to be. Increasing numbers of interim or transitional pastors are now deliberately using the “in between time” in churches as a great opportunity to bring about congregational [...]
Brian Thorstad
The Centrality of the Church in God’s Purpose
Jesus’ purpose is to build His Church. That must be our purpose: to work in the building of His Church.
Malcolm Webber
Let’s Not Complicate Leadership
Don’t start big. Start small. Concentrate on one bite of the elephant at a time.
Ron Edmondson
The Three Horizons
An organization has three primary stages of its life cycle, and leaders are responsible to focus on all of them.
Malcolm Webber
Adding Creativity to Your Work Culture
This is the kind of advice that sounds good on paper, but when the rubber meets the road, it can be scary. The only thing that’s scarier would be for a generation of high-potential leaders to walk away from an inflexible church.
Mike Bonem
A Healthy Leader Is Continually Growing
No leader will ever be perfect, but every leader must be growing.
Malcolm Webber
The Paradox of Investing in Others: How Passing the Torch Makes You Burn More Brightly
It seems counterintuitive, but the more you replicate yourself, the greater your job security.
Justin Rizzo
Motivating Others
We limit our thinking when we assume that staff are simply motivated by external rewards. Research reveals a different reality.
Elaine Vitikainen
The Temptation of the “Quick Fix” in Leadership
Sometimes we have to look at things on a deeper, heart level and understand why people and situations are the way they are. Even why we are the way we are, and what we might need to change.
Adrian Pei
Dave Odom Building Leaders: The “With” Principle
Jesus built leaders who were “with Him.” He did not do it at a distance; He did it closely, He did it personally. He did it properly.
Malcolm Webber
18 Ways to Identify Emerging Leaders
For most people, programs will not automatically transform them into superior leaders, as if they were butterflies emerging from cocoons. We should spend more time on accurately identifying which ones we should work with.
Malcolm Webber
The Word of God Must Be Central in Building Leaders!
The teaching of the Word of God was central in Jesus’ method of building leaders, and it must be in ours.
Malcolm Webber
Belaying Leadership
I love thinking about leadership through the lens of belaying. Belaying is something I hated to do when I first began to ice climb. I felt inadequate and unfit to hold someone’s life in my hands. But what can this experience of belaying teach you about leadership? Let’s take a look.
Joseph Lalonde
Log, Stork, or Servant Leader: Which Will You Be?
There are three kinds of leaders, but only one is truly effective.
Malcolm Webber
8 Ways Older Believers Can Invest In Younger Believers
Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good (Titus 2:6-7a). Here are some ways to “jumpstart” that commitment.
Chuck Lawless
Don’t Just Fill the Bucket – Engage Your Leaders!
Jesus challenged and engaged His learners. We must learn to do this too.
Malcolm Webber
Hard Advice for Young Leaders
I want you to have responsibility and authority. I want you to be fully rewarded and recognized for your contribution to society. I also want you to realize, however, that most things of lasting value take time and discipline to achieve.
Ron Edmondson
How to Turn Passive Followers into Passionate Leaders
What follows are the leadership development gems that Jesus used when turning a passive group of followers into passionate leaders.
Ralph Mayhew