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Learning to not only delegate work but influence is one of the most inspiring tasks of a church planter and good leader. Far too many leaders limit themselves in keeping tasks and responsibilities to themselves. After having poured my life into two couples and a fairly young man who is the worship leader, I realized [...]

When my wife and I planted our first church, we went alone. We didn’t know any better. We thought that we just needed to go to the community to which we were called and start working hard. Thankfully, God knew we needed help! So he sent us Gil and Susan. I met Gil at our [...]

It was the best of decisions. It was the worst of decisions. In my last blog, I questioned whether John Mark should be considered a false positive or false negative. Paul and Barnabas disagreed sharply on his fitness to rejoin them in ministry, leading the companions to go their separate ways. Paul had a successful [...]

To select or not to select? That is the question. Paul and Barnabas struggled over a critical personnel decision—whether or not to allow John Mark to rejoin them in ministry (Acts 15: 36-40). The two companions found themselves in strong disagreement. Barnabas wanted John Mark to resume as an assistant, despite his abandonment of the [...]

Building and shaping your leadership team early on will determine the level of success you will have in your plant.  I didn’t understand how important it was to have a good mix of people types to succeed.  I sometimes viewed people who were not visionaries like myself as problem people. The following is a list [...]

Planning, planting, and sustaining a new church require an assortment and blending of skills and leadership agility to gain and maintain traction. I propose a connectional leadership model as a comprehensive way to “get” the leadership moves and mindset needed to plant and sustain a new church. One of the most common behavioral types relates [...]

If God blesses you with leadership in the Church for enough years, you’ll inevitably hit a situation where someone has to be dismissed from a ministry role because of a moral failure. Don’t we all fail God morally and commit sin? For sure! But there is a precious trust that goes with a call to [...]