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Focus Chained and locked church doors
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Sustainability is increasingly difficult for the ever increasing number of churches worshipping small numbers each week. Lovett Weems captures the dilemma for church leaders and…

Focus Person walking in the shallows of a river
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David McAllister-Wilson, president of Wesley Theological Seminary, posits the metaphor of a delta region to describe the dangerous yet fertile waters the church must navigate…

Leading Ideas Stock photo of a thermometer. It is 24 degrees.
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Church leaders may think that leading in the business world is so much simpler than in the church since there is “one bottom line” and…

Leading Ideas Stock photo of green grapes that are still on the vine
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The fifteenth chapter of John’s Gospel contains rich imagery of the vine and the branches, an image that would have been obvious to those who…

Leading Ideas Stock photo of a cherry tree
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The genius of Bishop Robert Schnase’s Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations (Abingdon 2007) was to identify foundational habits that, when properly implemented, enable the church…


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