Category: Leadership
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Top Posts of 2012 #3: What Your Pastor Isn’t Telling You
This post checks in at #3 this year. I say ‘this year’ because I originally wrote this post back in 2011 and it has been in the top five read posts for the past 2 years. Apparently is struck a nerve. Most Lead Pastors come off as having it all under control. Never…
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Top Posts of 2012 #4: Is there Hope for Dying Churches?
Church mergers are not only on the rise, it is a growing trend and this story proved it this year. New Hope Baptist Church began in the early 1960’s. But if you drive by the campus in Mableton, Georgia, a suburb located on the northwest side of Atlanta, you’ll see a sign…
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Top Posts of 2012 #5: Better Together Making Church Mergers Work
For the next five days I’m going to be running down the top 5 posts from 2012 on Helping Churches Make Vision Real. These are the posts that generated the most traffic, comments, tweets, and Facebook posts. We start off with what ended up being a 2-part post. One of the most exciting things I’ve…
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Ministry Trends for 2013
Last week Rich Birch, who serves as the Director of Operations at Liquid Church in New Jersey released an info-graphic about trends he’s seeing in ministry as we head into 2013. With his permission I’m happy to share it with you here. You can keep up with Rich at his blog unseminary where he discusses…
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Why Telling People What to do makes them Stupid
While directions and plans may help you put together furniture from Ikea (with a little luck), put together your kids toys on Christmas Eve or even build enormous buildings and superstructures they don’t inspire people to give their lives to a cause or join a movement. After all, Martin Luther King Jr. said ‘I have…