Building Leaders
Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
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
Transformational Leadership
Transformation is radical change. To transform means to change in the way that a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, or a tadpole into a frog, or a baby into a child and then into an adult. After the process is completed, it is as if the older form ceases to exist.
Malcolm Webber
Delegating Upward: Why We Should Not Let It Happen
Some tasks are easier to do yourself, but where’s the fun in that? The fun – really, the sheer delight – is seeing someone else learn to handle a Kingdom responsibility and bless the Lord.
Joe McKeever
10 Reasons Leaders Stop Growing
The best leaders I know keep growing. They never settle for mediocrity. They look for and tackle challenges that stretch them beyond their own comfort zone. However, some leaders do stop growing and here are 10 common reasons they do.
Chuck Lawless
The Evolution of a Leader
Don’t be discouraged if you wrestle with yourself in leadership … it’s normal, and it can help others truly know you.
Adrian Pei
Leading Without Agendas
A professor of spirituality and ministry discovers that trust grows when leaders notice and release their own agendas.
L. Roger Owens
Are Leaders Born or Made?
The classic argument – nurture or nature – is well represented in leader development philosophies everywhere. We would all agree that some people are “born leaders,” but is it really that simple?
Malcolm Webber
New Realities of Church Leadership
The church is encountering significant paradigm shifts in our current age. We must understand these shifts, and be prepared to shift with them.
Malcolm Webber
Leading Transformation
Transformational leaders strive for higher goals. They engage the full person of the follower. And they initiate the actions that change the course of organizations.
Malcolm Webber
Building Leaders in Real Life
We need to reconnect a leader’s responsibility to do leadership work with his responsibility to build leaders.
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
Six Key Traits Of “Unleaders”
The author of “Unleader” discusses the common traits she has found in effective leaders during her 15 years as president and CEO of Development Associates International.
Jane Overstreet
Leaders Are Built Through Fire
As we prayerfully introduce pressure into our design, we give our emerging leaders the opportunity to more deeply embrace the cross and the resurrection life that follows.
Malcolm Webber
Is Your Leadership More Than Words?
If you want to be the kind of leader whose organization is on the cutting edge, stop asking for someone to give you an answer you already know. Great leaders have the courage to act!
Mike Mowery