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 Brian Davis | Apr 14, 2022 | Church Health, Church Revitalization, Coaching
There are lots of opinions about what a local church should look like, but at its CORE, the local church is a body of believers who “should” have the goal of effectively reaching people who don’t have a relationship with God, and making their faith-journey as easy as...
by Steve Sjogren | Apr 11, 2022 | Church Health, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
If the church was a mission to the moon, and I was the commander of the mission, my call to Mission Central would be: “Oh God, we have a problem!” The problem is that when the vast majority of people think of the Church, or of a Christian, their thoughts...
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...
by Ron Edmondson | Feb 28, 2022 | Church Health, Church Leadership
There are some lessons we only learn the hard way. One of them for me has been ways I help creative people on our teams flourish. I used to think when leading creatives, the key was to free them to create. Therefore, I gave huge blank slates, allowed people to dream,...
