Took this picture over the weekend at a Pumpkin Patch with the family. It reminded me that three to four months into a new ministry year there are areas and people that are growing and dying. The challenge comes when things that have historically been effective stagnate and new and uncomfortable things start to gain …
Late Fall and Your Ministry-Something is Growing and Dying Read More »
“So the soldiers cut the rope that held the lifeboat and let it fall away.” I have been reading Acts 27 recently, which describes the Apostle Paul’s voyage to Rome, and includes a series of difficult circumstances while seeking to arrive at the destination. It’s been a comfort and encouragement to me since moving in …
“What does it look like to be a leader when you no longer have control?”–Charlene Li Or Control and Command approach versus Open and Share My favorite quotes: “The new question in open leadership is What Can I Enable By Giving Up Control?” “The customers have changed. They are on Facebook and are waiting to …
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“Delegate authority not tasks. Tasks create followers. Authority creates leaders.” Craig Groeschel succinctly described the two basic ways of leading in a post on generational tension in leadership: 1-Leader focuses on preservation, followers exist to maintain the leader. 2-Leader focuses on empowerment, followers exist to grow into leaders and/or CHOOSE to be followers. In #1 …
With organizational leadership titles earning less credibility than ever before in the eyes of the followers it’s imperative leaders stay sharp on what it means to actually lead. This can bring comfort to the person passionate about adding value or leading change, but may bring terror or anxiety for those who have relied more on …
More tactics lead to more change I often function out of this paradigm yet see fewer results than when I change it to this: One tactic leads to much change Your ministry needs to change _________. But my guess is that there are literally hundreds of specific changes that need to made before that big …
Bootstrapping my ministry was less about doing what other big ministries were doing in the hopes of becoming like them and more about focusing on leveraging what I did have to grow to the next level (in relation to leaders–size and quality, laborers, and loot). I recently had a conversation with another ministry starter about …
Sometimes you sincerely desire to empower someone on your team but doubt whether it would be an encouragement or a burden for them. Other times you do not want to empower someone even though it may save you time, energy, and deliver better results than if you had made the final call. I stumbled on …
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Sometimes those whom you lead need very specific tasks to help them understand how to accomplish a particular role or responsibility. Those who are considering leadership need to know what specific actions they would be doing from you, because most often their assumptions differ dramatically from what’s expected. This job description from the 37Signals team, …
