How have you been able to find refreshing rest? What are some tricks of your own success? Please share your relevant experience(s) or wisdom in the comments below.
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As full time ministers look towards retirement, what transitional preparation do you believe is needed and what would you like to see happen? The C/E, perhaps like other denominations, has no defined policy of support regarding full time ministers retiring and facing issues of loss of home, community, spiritual base and needing to find [...]
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When a leader starts to serve in a particular responsibility does his authority come from past leaders, other leaders or directly from God? Can it be acquired some how or must it be given to the leader? Please share your relevant experience(s) or wisdom in the comments below.
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What are some examples from you own life of communication failures? What problems resulted and how did you make appropriate correction?
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When close friends and colleagues approach us with problems, it may be difficult not to offer solutions immediately. In a position of leadership, we often believe that is the best way we can help. Ahadu shares an experience where a counterintuitive strategy of prayerful counseling produced fruitful results.
Ahadu Gebreamlak
One of my biggest challenges in leading teams has always been conflict management. I usually try to let it resolve itself but sometimes that has blown up into even worse conflict situations. I don’t want to avoid conflict but I’m also unsure how to diffuse it. How do you get people to hear each other […]
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I had been having back pains, neck pains, headaches ‒ and eventually I wound up in the hospital having three stents put in my heart. I was worried about where I would be sent on my next mission assignment. Then too, I started stressing out over not being able to sleep. Of course, I also […]
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So here I am, 63 years old, having been in ministry for 45 years ‒ since I was a teenager. I’m sharing a 10-hour drive to Bible conference with a young lad who is buying all the gas. He goes on and on about biblical languages, citing authorities unknown to me. After about 20 minutes […]
Jim Brenneman
Chinese Christians have become adept at finding solutions by relying upon the Lord. Partners with them should be encouraged to bring tools rather than providing solutions. These tools in the hands of Chinese leaders may provide the means for devising suitable approaches to the challenges they face. Brent says mentors that model godly [...]
Brent Fulton
I want to be different in the days ahead. I want to break free from some encrusted attitudes. I want to set old fears aside and know victory over behaviors that have become unhealthy habits. I want to see God “create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me.” And mostly, I want to experience the Holy Spirit’s work of [...]
Scott Rodin
Growing up in three countries (South Korea, Canada and United States), I’m fascinated by how culture shapes different leadership styles. Richard D. Lewis charted 24 different leadership styles in his book “When Cultures Collide.” This is a ground-breaking book when it comes to finding clues to understanding of intercultural [...]
Paul Sohn
This is a return to something people understood before the global and digital age distracted us. Something in all of us wants to be connected to a place and the people who live in it. Those in our neighborhood and city are longing for it. From cafes to civic clubs to neighborhoods a collision of something beautiful is happening in our [...]
Alan Briggs
Here are ten tactics used to avoid accountability for mistakes, poor practice, dysfunction, and outright deviance.
Kelly O’Donnell