by Dave Workman | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Designing, developing, and improving church systems is the unsexy work very few church leaders get excited about. Systems: How we get our mission done. But the reality is: systems are simply how we get our mission done: processes, infrastructure,...
by Dave Workman | Jun 9, 2022 | Church Leadership, Church Revitalization
Nothing should thrill a leader more than overhearing a volunteer describing the mission of the organization in a way that sounds as if they personally dreamed it up. That should never, ever threaten a leader—it’s what you long for! What you’re hoping to drive is the...
by Dave Workman | Mar 3, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Discipleship
At the start of a new year, rather than thinking about resolutions and future thinking, I prefer to first mentally review the past year: What flourished, what struggled, what brought personal joy, and what were some soul challenges? For me, that makes...
by Dave Workman | Jan 6, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Revitalization
Many years ago a fellow pastor introduced me to a graphic that was helpful for a wider view of the Church. He had adapted a construct from the late author Phyliss Tickle that described the landscape of modern Christianity and the Church (capital C) in quadrants....
by Dave Workman | Nov 18, 2021 | Church Health, Church Revitalization, Small Church / Rural Church
Lots of folks have been questioning what church life and ministry should look like post-Covid. To do that, I think it would first be best to understand where you’ve been. And by “where you’ve been”, I mean where your organization has been both circumstantially and...
