Tag: church
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6 Indicators You’re Leading an Insider Focused Church
How do you know if you’re leading an insider-focused church? Here are 6 indicators that you and your team can use to evaluate your church: #1 Language The language you choose to use is important because it both reflects and builds culture at the same time. There are all kinds of ways this goes wrong…
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Why Comparison is a Church Killer
Comparison is a Church killer, period. I think it’s ironic that we’ll preach messages in our churches about the body of Christ having unique parts, gifts and abilities but copy each other and chase after sameness. Comparisons are killing the movement of the Gospel and hurting churches and their staff. Healthy biblical leadership avoids comparisons…
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3 Reasons People don’t Give to your Church
A few months back I did a series of posts on 6 big ideas about “Engaging the Givers in your Church.” And just like there are real actionable steps that churches can take to engage givers, there are also things that churches do to repel givers. More often than not they’re doing these things and…
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Creating an Outsider Focused Culture in your Church
Becoming Insider Focused is Natural: It’s natural to be insider focused, because what comes natural to us is us. It is not natural to let other people go before us, think about what others prefer before our own preferences, or meet the needs of others before meeting our own needs first. We are naturally self…
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Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else
I recently finished reading The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Leniconi. I can already tell you that this is going to be on my top 5 reads from 2013. I deeply resonated with the concepts in this book. You see in many ways this book describes why I do…