April 26, 2017 0 A fruitful exercise is to name as a group where you most hope God will lead your church in this next year. What will be different a year from now? What will increase? What will change? After doing this exercise, then you are ready to use this question to see how much attention they are receiving:What do we monitor regularly?
April 26, 2017 0 When did you ever learn the most in your life? I guarantee it’s a time you felt most at risk.Ginni Rometty
April 19, 2017 0 Lee Kricher asks which of these statements would people be most likely to hear you say? 1. “If it was good enough for me, it will good enough for our children.”Or2. “Let’s do whatever it takes to reach the next generation.”
April 19, 2017 0 People are looking for leaders who will write the vision plain enough for a distracted and anxious culture to read, and they become upset and angry when those in traditional positions of authority seem as lost and confused as everyone else.Cynthia G. Linder
April 5, 2017 0 There is a temptation to spend all of our attention on tasks and activities while forgetting our purpose. Scott J. Jones offers three questions for meeting agendas to help churches and ministries remember why they exist.1. What is our mission?2. How are we doing?3. What are we doing that is not contributing to our mission and thus we can quit doing it?
March 28, 2017 0 We’re trying to sustain hope by being a hope. Hope is not simply something that you have; hope is something that you are.Cornel West
March 28, 2017 0 While “All Are Welcome” messages abound outside churches, Carey Nieuwhof says that “increasingly unchurched people think about walking into a church the way you might think about randomly walking into a wedding to which you weren’t invited.” Convinced that in the future about the only way non-Christians will enter churches is through personal invitation, he suggests that the next time you drive by a church building you ask:“What would it take to convince me that I can walk in uninvited and participate in what they’re doing?”
March 13, 2017 0 This is not the first time the Spirit has substantially disrupted the established patterns of the church’s practice and place in a culture, and it will not be the last.Alan J. Roxburgh
March 13, 2017 0 Thomas G. Kirkpatrick says most people enter a meeting asking two questions. The meetings you lead will be more productive and fulfilling for everyone if you go into each meeting knowing these two questions are foremost in the minds of your participants.Why are we meeting?How may I participate?
