by Charles Ridley | May 23, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Planting, Church Revitalization
Have you ever made a bad hiring decision? Enthusiastically selected someone to a responsible position, only to watch the decision cascade into a disaster? Appointed someone as a leader, discovering later the person’s intention was to undermine your leadership?...
by Ron Edmondson | May 16, 2022 | Church Leadership, Pastoral Burnout
I’m convinced the biggest battle in leadership is often within the emotions of a leader – and equally powerful – the emotions of those we lead. The biggest battle in leadership is a battle against emotions. The hardest part of leadership is not making the difficult...
by Dave Workman | Apr 21, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Revitalization
Over the years that we’ve worked with churches, it’s been our observation that of the four critical elements of healthy, effective churches: Integrity (systems, processes, organizational wholeness) Passion (communal commitment to the mission) Servanthood (outward...
by Jeff Hoglen | Apr 7, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Revitalization
Church planting is one of the toughest callings – period. Those who think it’s easy are either crazy, never tried, or have never been involved with a new church plant. Over the course of time, problems arise, and leaders have to make decisions –...
by Ron Edmondson | Apr 4, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership
I’m not a huge fan of most policies and a majority of them, in my opinion, need someone to improve them. It could be because I’m not a very good rule follower, but I honestly don’t think many policies work as well as they were intended when created. Policies are...
