small groups and programs worship services that mix traditional and contemporary styles with an emphasis on relevant sermons pastors who work hard on mentorship and cultivation of the laity an emphasis on effective lay leadership. The Methodists concluded a study of 32,000 of their own congregations and noted that these four were true of every …
I’ve been seeing/hearing more conversations around Doug Pollock’s book God Space and found a short video interview where Doug talks a bit about the book. Have you read God Space? Are you using it in a training or discipleship context? Would love to hear about it!
I love resource sites; I hate downloading content that’s too long, not what I wanted, or extremely long. Solution: My Top 5 Page No it’s not perfect but here are some features that I hope you will like: Preview the text documents on the page before downloading Print right from the page All have been …
“Rather than creating some sort of idealized path structure that ignores history and tradition and human nature…look where the paths are already being formed by behavior and then formalize them.”–Paving the Cowpaths from the Designing Social Interfaces Blog Leaders must have a compelling vision and know where they want to go but those that see …
I’m a sucker for vision and long term strategy but getting something done RIGHT NOW that’s important feels so good. Here’s some links that have helped me: 1. Turn Up the Heat: “Raising the temperature of an insurance company’s offices from 68 degrees to 77 degrees Fahrenheit (20 to 25 C) reduced typing errors by …
A huge thanks to those of you who have provided feedback on the ministry funnel. It’s changed dramatically in the last few days as I have processed the feedback. The goal is simple: Create a resource to help ministry leaders diagnose their current reality and implement future-oriented, value-driven strategy and tactics. Since the funnel has …
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Tony Morgan created this awesome graphic on a recent post to illustrate two different models for team building and task completion: A couple reflections: Metrics related to the END GOAL are extremely difficult to generate. It takes time, focus, intentionality, and many other draining action verbs. Yet metrics tied to the end goal are absolutely …
Teaching. Every year I directed a ministry I underestimated the amount of teaching I needed to do in order to clarify the why’s of our ministry (in relation to the mission, vision, and values). Every year I also noticed that the majority of people assume something negative about the why’s if they do not understand …
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“The red spots on this video show the focus of eyes of someone looking at their Newswall on Facebook. This shows the power of status updates on Facebook for individuals and Businesses. Notice too people looking at the inbox and notifications area. (Personal data blurred out obviously)”–From this post on Facebook research. If you are …
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“Good things happen when we start before we’re ready. Not only do we open ourselves to the blessings of happy serendipity, but we steal a march on the forces of procrastination, perfectionism, over-preparation, fear and self-doubt.“–Steven Pressfield from one of his blog posts. I’ve noticed that my ministry effectiveness is proportional to the amount of …
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