It Takes Teamwork
…not to have much common sense about administrative matters.” Domineering people who have poor reflective skills and lack common sense tend not to be good administrators. They burn out quickly,…
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General Conference is Broken; Annual Conferences Are Not
…identities has the movement’s shared commitments at its core, there is no unifying center. Thus, the power of the “invisible leader” of common identity and purpose goes missing. Rather than…
Healing Fractured Communities: An In-Depth Interview with Doug Powe and Jessica Anschutz
…church. Over several years we worked with eight cohorts of Community Fellows. The book addresses how churches can create healing in the context of different types of community divisions. As…
Leaders Help Their Communities Dream Big Dreams
…a vision that points the community to a future they have already glimpsed but have not yet fully imagined. The leader is called to articulate the “already but not yet”…
“New Approaches to Help Youth Form Lasting Faith” featuring Brad Griffin
…Youth Institute about five compass points that can guide an impactful youth ministry. The approach emphasizes building trust and relationships while teaching in transformative and experiential ways that help young…
A Birthday Party for Jesus
…article comes from a forthcoming book by Margie Briggs to be published by Cass Community Publishing House. Related Resources: A More Empowering Christmas Gift Give-Away by Faith Fowler 10 Ways…
Lewis Community Leadership Fellows ‘Lift their Gaze’
When Rev. Nathan Adams was invited to become a Lewis Community Leadership Fellow it was like being asked to come home. “I was a Lewis Fellow five years ago,” he…
A Growing Church Understands the Interconnection between Discipleship and Evangelism
…other. Come, grow, serve, and go. At NBC, we have an intentional organic discipleship process employing our core values, which are Come, Grow, Serve, and Go. We encourage converts to…
Preach Like TED
…anything unless their hearts have been touched. You must be passionate about your sermon, and that passion must come through in your delivery. You must also communicate ideas, stories, and…
Resurrection as a Call to Action
…church through the book of Acts. For the sake of their mission, those early leaders learned to compromise, to set aside their own customs and cultural practices, and to approach…
Understanding the Nones
…suspects Burge carefully examines the available data to determine what might be fueling this sea change in the religious landscape. According to his analysis, some of our common explanations aren’t…
3 Keys to Congregational Success: Meaning, Belonging, and Values
…are nearly universal human needs that congregations have traditionally met. But in recent decades, the “nones” (those who profess no religious affiliation) have come to comprise nearly a quarter of…
How Can Your Church Building Reignite Your Mission?
Krin Van Tatenhove and Rob Mueller remind us that a congregation’s physical assets are resources to be stewarded to advance the kingdom. They recommend examining building users and partnerships to…
When Churches Hire Members
…development Church staff often come into their roles with professional experience in other fields, but little formal training in theology or the finer points of church leadership. Typically, they do…
4 Tips for Experimenting with Change This Summer
…impacting all the components of the community’s time together. We often settle for the former, but we should be more intentional about doing the latter. 3. Adjust as you go…
Leaders Learn to Work with Difficult People
…Talk to people instead of about them These types of responses are a form of behavior that system theorists call triangulation. Triangulation is a common communication pattern in which one…
Is It Time to Acknowledge Where We Got It Wrong?
…we champion racial justice as a vital component of Christian discipleship, we must acknowledge and repent of this part of our history.” No one branch of the Wesleyan witness has…
Becoming the Person God Created You to Be
…myself, “Why me? I’m not a city person. I don’t come from wealth. I’m not well-versed in the finer points of etiquette. What can I offer?” A wise friend said…
It’s Not about the Numbers…. Actually It Is about the Numbers
Lovett Weems stresses the need for quantitative metrics, arguing that churches will never make the changes needed to attract new people until they commit to reach those people. Qualitative and…
Diversity Leadership in the Church
…appropriate theological framework along with an adequate definition of diversity. A new definition of diversity. The first step in the direction of this expertise is a new, more comprehensive definition…
Prayer and Fasting Leads to a New Mission and a “Mission Prayer”
…would not work for us. Rather than communicating boldly, and perhaps even arrogantly, who we are, we wanted our statement to communicate humbly that we are Christians who need God,…
Igniting a Ministry
…Kibbey, executive pastor of Ginghamsburg Church in Tipp City, Ohio, outlines a comprehensive system for ministry development that begins with analysis of the essential components of individual leadership and goes…
Church on the Edge of Somewhere
…They show appreciation for its layers of meaning and its setting in the community. We read them and say, “Yes, that’s how it is.” Again, nothing changes. In Church on…
A New Way to View Vitality in Smaller Congregations
…enveloped in the warmth of family-like ties. The congregation is a blessing to the community where it finds itself. The social location of the congregation in the community may have…
The Power of Recommendation
We attend dozens of worship services in different churches every year. Way too often we hear the preachers implore along the scripted lines: “Come back next week, and bring a…
Fruitful Leadership for a Mission-Shaped Church
…on those kinds of tipping points. And I realized how really very purposeful they are. Plants do not produce flowers for their own sake. A very intelligent God designed an…
Keys to Effective Financial Ministry
Not surprisingly, church consultant Clif Christopher’s new book, Rich Church, Poor Church: Keys to Effective Financial Ministry (Abingdon Press, 2012), makes many of the same points that he makes in…
Ten Ways Congregations Can Promote the Financial Wellbeing of Clergy
…Your Pastor’s Health and Well being” included these ten suggestions for how congregations can contribute to the financial health of their pastors: Compensate the pastor fairly according to his/her experience,…
A Leading Ideas Interview with Adam Hamilton
…but so I can stay connected with people in need. I used to attend every committee meeting. Now, I attend one monthly Staff-Parish Committee meeting and Church Council six times…
Defining Congregational Effectiveness
Ann Michel compares two research efforts that help define the qualitative factors of congregational effectiveness and their impact on growth. What makes a church strong? Too often, measures of church…
