Leaders who are effective in the long run have a set of enduring values that guide them. Values are important in all areas of leadership, but perhaps are most important in the way leaders utilize the people who follow them. There should be two values that you hold in balance when it comes to utilizing people [...]
February 7, 2012
The Ideal-Sized Congregation? Try 500!
by Steve Sjogren
Great churches come in a variety of sizes, very large ones, medium-sized ones and smaller ones. Some are frustrated with the mega church scene in our day for a variety of reasons. It is a mistake to discount the vital role mega churches play in God’s strategy for reaching the world. God has in mind [...]
February 6, 2012
3 Gut Checks to Stop Planting Worship Services and Begin to Start Planting Churches!
by Charles Hill
A Bob Roberts quote really caught my attention lately. He said, “We don’t plant churches in America. We plant worship services.” Ouch. 1. If your Super Bowl party last night was full of church people and small group holy huddles…you have planted a worship service. **I know we are missional, incarnational, organic, blah, blah, blah. [...]
February 4, 2012
Don’t Look At The Cactus!
by Bob Logan
I love mountain biking. It’s probably my favorite pastime. Early in my mountain biking experience, I was riding at a regional park near my home. I was surprised to spot a group of cactuses up ahead and was worried about hitting them. I kept looking over at them, gauging the length of their spikes and [...]
February 3, 2012
Dealing with Limits in Pastoring
by Steve Nicholson
When I was a young church planter my team and I spent countless hours trying to deal with the kinds of complicated pastoral situations that inevitably come up – marriages on the rocks, mental illness, interpersonal conflicts and such. It is amazing how much trouble a small group of people can get into. The problem [...]
February 1, 2012
6 Steps To Simple Church Planting
by Artie Davis
There are a lot of new buzz words and strategies these days for planting churches. I must admit, I am from a small town and I need things to be simple in order to understand them. Studying through the book of Acts, it seems the first church planted new churches and “turned the world upside [...]
January 30, 2012
Escorting Berliners To Jesus
by Martin Buehlmann
About three years ago I met a middle-aged man who had been working as an art conservator during the former GDR (German Democratic Republic), the Socialist Germany. He had been fired after the reunification of Germany and was since then jobless. He had been through a hard twenty years, most of that time in the [...]
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