by Martin Buehlmann | Mar 10, 2023 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Church Planting
Learning to not only delegate work but influence is one of the most inspiring tasks of a church planter and good leader. Far too many leaders limit themselves in keeping tasks and responsibilities to themselves. Click To Tweet After having poured my life into two...
by Joe Miller | Jun 17, 2012 | Church Leadership
The church in the United States is in love with “influence.” Every year there are magazines covers that celebrate the “Top 100 Most Influential Pastors.” But what does it really mean to be a pastor of influence? Is “influence” based on size of congregation? Book...
by Marcus Bigelow | Feb 18, 2012 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Last month I blogged (all right, I whined) about how we don’t measure the right things. I’ve been thinking all month about what we measure. In 1965 the Polish Atheist Society published a paper on 5 things that Christianity has given the world that only Christianity...
by Dave Alford | Nov 7, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
One of the most powerful tools ever discovered is the lever. A lever is simply an instrument that’s used with a pivot to move an object. With a lever, objects that could not possibly be moved can be moved. Leverage is used in all kinds of fields. In mechanics,...
by Ben Arment | May 3, 2011 | Church Leadership
Influence is an interesting animal. You can have it with people in certain spheres, but absolutely zero in others. Like how Malcolm Gladwell probably goes largely unrecognized when he walks through the streets of New York. I once went into awe-paralysis when Chuck...