Church Leadership
It’s becoming very popular to teach church growth and leadership principles using ideas from successful businesses.
Some of the titles of books and articles I’ve seen lately include, What The Church Can Learn From...
- Harley Davidson
- Marvel Movies
- Japanese Management
When it comes to leading people, many pastors fall into one of two opposite traps.
Doing everything themselves, or delegating tasks to people who don’t do them well.
Many pastors swing wildly between the two.
Here’s why.
What Causes Pastoral Burnout?
We see something ...
Music has always been a point of contention in the church.
Hundreds of years ago church members argued over singing in harmony instead of unison (bye-bye, Gregorian chants!), then we argued over whether-or-not to use instruments, then over what instruments are appropriate for ...
There’s been a lot written about productivity lately.
And I’m grateful for it.
Whenever I can, I want to minimize distractions, get right to the task at hand and arrive at the end of the day feeling like I did what I set out to do – maybe even more. If an efficiency ...
There are some pastors whose names are known by thousands, even millions of people.
They have the type of ministry in which their successes are obvious.
But that’s not the case with most pastors.
The typical pastor does ministry without much notice or name recognition.
Today ...
As pastors, we typically spend our time in three overlapping areas of ministry: communication, administration and relationships.
But our time is always limited, so on those weeks when time gets tighter, which of the three should we spend extra time on, and which of the three ...
One of the challenges of pastoring in a small church is that there’s nothing typical (or normal) about anything we do.
Our schedule, our skill-set, our facilities (or lack of), our staff (or lack of), our salary (or… you get the idea…). None of it is typical. ...
There’s something very sad and scary about the way too many pastors are leaving the ministry lately.
It’s never been unusual to hear about pastors dropping out of full-time ministry when the demands of the calling are different from their expectations. Especially ...
People don’t hate long sermons.
They hate boring sermons. Irrelevant sermons. Impractical sermons. Uninspiring sermons. Unprepared sermons. Over-prepared sermons… You get the idea.
A bad sermon can’t be short enough, but an engaging sermon can go longer than ...
If you want a church to grow, you need to become less of a hands-on pastor.
That’s what I’m constantly told. But it’s not entirely true. At least not for most congregations of a typical size.
The go-to Bible passage most church leaders use for this idea is the ...
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