Suppose Bob walked into your church and had no religious background. The music was okay. The message made him think a...
Dave Workman is the president and co-founder of the Elemental Group. He is the author of Elemental Leaders: Four Essentials Every Leader Needs…And Every Church Must Have and The Outward-Focused Life: Becoming a Servant in a Serve-Me World. Dave was instrumental in the growth of the Vineyard Cincinnati megachurch from its inception and then served as senior pastor for thirteen years. He spearheaded such initiatives as the groundbreaking Healing Center—a multimillion-dollar facility offering forty different services to holistically meet the needs of thousands of resource-challenged people every month—and the H2O Nigeria Project, drilling over one hundred water wells in central Nigeria. Dave regularly speaks on leadership development and building outward-focused churches nationally and internationally. He and his wife Anita have been happily married since 1978 and have two married daughters and four spectacularly beautiful grandchildren. Contact: dave@elementalgroup.org
Dave Workman Posts
Where Are All the Leaders?
In a recent email blast to subscribers (www.elementalgroup.org), I asked for a response to a simple question: As a...
The Grip of Leadership
What a start to the week. The self-removal of an incumbent from a presidential horserace is history in the making. As...
Fortune Cookies and Prayer
This past weekend while speaking in a church, I relayed a creative outreach story that I’ve probably told several...
Pastoring in the Consumer Era
I love pastors. Been there, done it, got the proverbial t-shirt. It’s a tough gig. The job of pastoring is broad...
The Challenges of Staffing
One of the most difficult aspects of leading a church is staffing. And here’s the mind-numbing problem: it will always...
Scaredy-Cat Leadership
About three thousand years ago, Israel was once again in a bad place. They had this pathological spiritual pattern:...
What’s Your Strategy?
We—the followers of Jesus—live in an interesting neighborhood: The World. My friend Tom Thatcher (co-founder of The...
The Power of True Community
I grew up in a small town. Railroad tracks sliced through the middle of town and freight trains would rattle the...
Tattoos, Jesus, and Doughnuts
After stepping down from leading the church I was a part of for thirty years, finding a new “church home” was a...
The Success in Succession
Are You Future-Thinking? There’s been a lot written about senior pastors’ transition and succession,...
Do Leaders Have to Know All The Answers?
I had someone ask me if I leaned more Reformed or Arminian theologically. I said yes…and I wasn’t trying to be clever....