Perspectives

Distinguishing a Boss from a Leader

Being a leader doesn’t mean you allow poor quality of work to prevail. There are times a leader has to micromanage. We need good systems and processes.

Ron Edmondson

4 Ways Great Churches Keep It Simple

Simplicity brings with it focus, energy, clarity, understanding and power. Is it easy to get to this level of simplicity? Definitely not. It is excruciatingly difficult and totally worthwhile.

Brian Thorstad

Five Limitations of Church Programs

Let’s consider five limitations of church programs so that we don’t treat these programs as if they’re simple formulas for producing mature disciples of Jesus.

Paul Alexander

Failure as Christ-Shaped Leadership

The world hungers for and desperately needs institutions that practice forgiveness well enough to train us in failure, that tell the truth and that teach ways of repair. Without such institutions, it is, quite simply, difficult even to breathe.

C. Kavin Rowe

What Does It Mean to Be a Life-Giving Leader

We are experiencing a new day that requires a new kind of leader. This new kind of leader is life-giving.

Tim Elmore

Assumptions Ministry Leaders Make About Ownership

Many Christian workers make the mistake of assuming that they are earning shares in the ministries they work for through their hard work and dedication. It seems logical. God is the sole owner of the church. Always has been. Always will be. He paid for it with the priceless blood of Christ.

Brian Thorstad

Eternal Perspective – Doing Well in the Fire Video Series #5

This teaching looks at the fourth critical component of a good response to suffering: Eternal Perspective.

Malcolm Webber

3 Advantages of Choosing a Target Group

The process of talking and praying about focus groups is challenging, but it is a discussion that can result in good things for God’s glory and Christ’s Gospel.

Brian Thorstad

7 Bottlenecks a Leader Must Avoid

Leaders should aim to never be a bottleneck in the process of building a healthy and growing organization. Here are seven bottlenecks a leader must avoid.

Ron Edmondson

Less of Everything

The world is now talking of “less” in almost every new innovation that is coming on the market.

Jonathan Mbuna

To the Mentor: Mentors Don’t “Need” Protégés

Something felt, well, wrong about the whole thing. I had gone to him for advice, some professorial counsel about choices that lay before me, as I was nearly finished with my graduate studies. I had options, six options to be exact. And people who have had the fortune of finding themselves with more than one […]

Russell West

Two Views: Severance and Financial Support for a Fallen Leader

There are two different views on severance or financial support for a fallen ministry leader.

Eric Geiger

10 Reflections on Worship Leaders

The title varies (e.g., Minister of Music, Worship Pastor, Song Leader, etc.), but the task is generally the same. Here are some of things others have most affirmed about worship leaders, followed by concerns most often raised.

Chuck Lawless

Wounded Healers

We were working with 25 Mothers’ Union community development coordinators from across South Africa. As part of our training, my co-facilitator performed a monologue of how it must have felt to be the woman who encountered Jesus at the well (John 4).

Bill Crooks

The Best Leaders Are Broken Leaders

I don’t mean that we’re “broken” in the sense that we’re rendered useless by our imperfections. The opposite is actually true. We’re made more useful, and we discover our greatest purpose through our pain and suffering.

Brandon Cox

3 Blind Spots in Leaders

Our lack of self-awareness in life and leadership is often referred to as our “blind spots.”

Eric Geiger

Should You Quit?

People often quit when they hit resistance. You might be discouraged and ready to give up. But should you?

Russell Moore

Resist Spirituality

In our reshaping day and age of fluid culture, society and Church, what are the truest healthy signs of Christian leadership? At the epicenter of our Christian cultures today, what are the real, timeless essentials that we have to gather around? Are you confident that the culture you’re a part of today is truly biblical?

Nick Franks