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Churches are likely to grow toward partnership among their members when there is a dynamic of leadership behavior among a variety of people and not just one leader.

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By Lewis Reader on October 11, 2016

Previous ArticleChanges can be exciting or threatening, depending on your perspective. In the best of cases, some will be more excited and welcoming of the change than others. Apart from the specifics of the change, how you as a leader implement the change will either enhance the trust people have in you or diminish your credibility. One person suggests using this question in approaching any upcoming change:

Will the way I handle this change raise, maintain, or diminish trust?

Next Article Will Willimon speaks in a sermon about the rich man who goes on a journey and entrusts his property to workers, giving one five talents, another two talents, and the third, one talent. (Matt. 25:14ff.) Upon the rich man’s return, the workers faced the same question, Willimon reminds us, that all of us face:

What have you done with what you were given?

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