Building Leaders
Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
Seven Costs of Disciple-Making
Perhaps what might help us over our hurdles is not to hide how costly disciple-making is, but to be utterly honest and explicit about the costs, and hold them out in the light for us to see, and then find whether something in us might just rise to the peculiar glory of it all.
David Mathis
Do You Like Playing with Dominos?
Leadership can be fun and frustrating all at the same time. If you and your team are struggling with the uncertainties of leadership, the principles and questions in this post will help you reset your perspective.
Dan Lovaglia
12 Ways You Can Make Beautiful Music with Your Team Today
It takes a significant amount of work to develop these unifying characteristics in a team, but an effective team is worth the work.
Malcolm Webber
Five Things We Need From Our Leaders
Teacher, Equipper, Healer, and Challenger – a pastor who flourishes in these four roles will shepherd people to love Jesus Christ with all their heart, soul, mind and strength. Whole person ministry is critical to building people because every believer has a need to know, a need to be equipped, a need to be healed, and a need to be challenged.
Brent Hoover
3 Essentials in Christian Leadership Development
Effective leadership development combines training, experiences, and coaching.
Eric Geiger
Build or Enslave Others – It’s Your Choice
In Part Four of “Are You an Abusive Leader?” we explore the effects of abusive leadership on their followers and organizations.
Malcolm Webber
Mesmerize Your Followers So You Can Do Whatever You Want
In Part Three of “Are You an Abusive Leader?” we take a hard look at the personal qualities of abusive leaders, as opposed to servant leaders.
Malcolm Webber
Follow to Lead
We all have plenty of first-hand experience of being a follower since we were born and followed our parents. Perhaps we need to invest as much in becoming good followers as we do in developing our leadership?
Hiwot Alemayehu
How To Achieve Your Goals At the Expense of Your Followers
Maybe you know where you're going and how to get there, but how do you know when you've arrived? Your answer depends on whether you're an abusive leader or not.
Malcolm Webber
Check Yourself: Is Your Vision Abusive?
Where are you going? How will you get your followers to go with you? How you answer these questions will define whether you are an abusive leader or a servant leader.
Malcolm Webber
Why Leaders Must Not Be Afraid of Doing Hard Things
As leaders, doing what’s “most needed or important,” and serving others and the greater good, often requires doing the hard things in life, whether it’s confronting somebody or holding them accountable for their actions.
Adrian Pei
How Will You Build Up Your Archippus?
God has entrusted you to invest in people whose names and ministries will never be widely known. Here are five ways to build them up more effectively.
Dan Lovaglia
How Does Your Team Eat That Elephant? One Bite at a Time.
The effectiveness and health of a team is directly associated with sharing common goals.
Malcolm Webber
Mentoring for Kingdom Potential
Like towering trees in a dense forest, leaders in Jesus’ time were egocentric, oppressive, and in charge. They shut out much needed light for emerging leaders. Perhaps this is why Jesus never described His disciples as leaders. He didn’t want future leaders of His church to absorb those leadership values. The church’s healthy beginning was linked to Jesus’ sacrificial resolve to lead by focusing on His followers’ highest potential. Rick uses examples from the beginning of his ministry as a pastor to illustrate how experienced Christians can have a tremendous impact on younger, less mature Christians through mentoring.
Rick Sessoms
11 Things Healthy Followers MUST Do Daily
The health and growth of an organization or church depends on every member taking responsibility for the whole – and healthy followers will do so in eleven primary ways.
Malcolm Webber
Dave Odom6 Ways Followers Influence Leaders
Followers possess extraordinary power. Here’s how they can use it.
Malcolm Webber
10 Ways to Destroy the Culture of Your Ministry
In a time of so much uncertainty it’s comforting to know there are some rock-solid, absolutely guaranteed, methods to destroy the culture of whatever it is you’re leading. Here they are. Try them out!
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
Abusive Leaders and Servant Leaders
Leaders have a choice: they can hold onto their power and use it purely for selfish ends, or they can give their power away to others.
Malcolm Webber