EFFECTIVE VS. EXCELLENT

As leaders we’ve all been in groups, organizations or churches where excellence has become an all-consuming and financial sucking idol. If I were to give you $5,000 and ask you to improve some aspect(s) of what you are doing to make it more excellent, I am sure...

Four Wrong Beliefs That Feel Right

Sometimes it’s not the things you don’t believe that can hurt your leadership, but rather the things you do believe that are not true! As leaders we can be trying to operate with lies we have come to believe are true. In today’s guest post, Dan...

Some Characteristics of a 1 Corinthians 12 Church

We’ve all heard it from time to time that we want our churches (our church) to be a New Testament church! But what exactly does that mean? What characterized the New Testament church in the Bible? Chuck Lawless gives us some very practical, and specific answers...

TRY LOWERING THE BAR

Some of you might be thinking that the last person you can think of that would encourage somebody to lower the bar would be me. Now before you overreact and think that I’ve gone soft in the noggin in my old age, hang with me for a few paragraphs. This might sound...

Building A Culture Where People Actually Care!

From an Email by: https://simonsinek.com   We all want to be part of teams where people genuinely care about the mission, the work, and each other. But caring isn’t something you can mandate—and it definitely isn’t something you can fake. Bob Chapman, CEO of the...