Leading Change

The Benefits of Investing in Your Development

Ministry leaders who developmentally invest in their future find roles that match their giftings and provide increased levels of influence. The demands of the present often prevent leaders from taking the time to pursue people and experiences that produce developmental gains. However each moment invested in the present, however important, diminishes the ability to prepare …

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Measuring Transactions and Interactions in Ministry

A huge challenge I observe in ministry is for leaders who grew up in the transaction era leading those who are ministering in the interaction era. Many ministry leaders consider themselves falsely ineffective because of the expectation to produce more transactions. The previous generation almost exclusively measured transactions in ministry: donations, attendance, decisions for Christ, …

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Lighten Your Ministry Structure

When evaluating your ministry structure the conversation has a gravitational pull towards addition, not subtraction. However pruning/curating/streamlining your ministry structure by taking things out and/or grouping things together offers a huge opportunity for significant growth and increased effectiveness. Here’s a couple things to think through: Are there any ministry teams that overlap more than 30% …

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Calling Out Dogma

“Something held as an established tradition.”–Definition of Dogma Established traditions work well only when the context from which those traditions emerged stays relatively equal. Unfortunately many of the traditions that made ministries successful are now becoming increasing less effective and archaic. Yet the traditions continue. Jared Spool spoke at SXSWI on the topic of design …

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How Many Future-Oriented Decisions Are Made Without You?

The longer a ministry leader stays in a leadership role the more future-oriented decisions OTHERS should be making. There are core decisions that a ministry leader can and should make every year, especially related to ones where a majority of resources are being released. If a ministry has not grown significantly in the past 2-3 …

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