Category: Leadership
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What’s wrong with big churches?
Over the last 10 years of serving in mega-churches I’ve heard all kinds of criticisms of large churches. “All Big Churches care about is money.” “Big Churches are too impersonal.” “Big Churches care more about building their Big Church than they do about building disciples.” The list literally goes on and on…and on. I’m in…
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Creating a Healthy Leadership Culture in your Church
Culture can be defined as the defining set of values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of any one group. It is something that is usually unnoticed, unspoken, and unexamined, particularly in Churches. As a result, few churches ever take steps towards intentionally defining and building a desired culture; instead it usually happens by default. It’s very…
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Delegation vs Empowerment
Many organizations and people have a tendency to mistakenly use the words “delegation” and “empowerment” interchangeably, thinking that they are basically the same thing. This can become a fatal flaw. We’re not talking about simple nuance or semantics, but differences that will lead you in completely opposite directions. Recently I was in a conversation with…
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Church Unique
If you haven’t read Will Mancini’s book, Church Unique, go and buy it now! If you’re a leader and love seeing a dream become reality then even the subtitle should get you going a bit, “How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement.” In it he does a masterful job of re-framing the…
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bridging the culture gap
Throughout the years culture has continued to be a dilemma for many Christians. As people we have a tendency to be skeptical, fearful, antagonistic, and even attack that which we don’t understand. Throw religion into the mix and we can turn into crusaders. Ironic isn’t it? Is culture bad? Should we separate ourselves from the…