Do you know how to use Board and staff retreats to accelerate evaluation and growth? Doctors know that the best way to evaluate a patient is to look at his vital signs and to ask him questions. The vital signs quantify health; the questions clarify health. For pastors, there are eighteen numbers that will help you […]
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9 Things You Need to Know About Leading a Ministry Team Meeting
You can lead a ministry team meeting at church that people love to come to. You scoff? You doubt that people would ever love a board meeting or a committee meeting? Granted, we’re not usually eager meeting-goers. Meetings at church, like in the business world, have a bad reputation. They can be the archetypal waste of […]
How to Spark your Worship Leader’s Success
What if you knew 24 ways you could help your worship leader succeed? Would that make a difference for your congregation every weekend? In your relationship with your worship leader? In your worship leader’s life? Yes. Yes. And again, yes. The most important staff relationship in most churches is between the Lead Pastor and the Worship Leader. […]
10 Personal Tests to Make Sure You are your Church’s Best Asset
You can be your church’s best asset. A few years ago a new staff member set an appointment with me to ask one question.“How can I become the best staff member you’ve ever had?” In twenty years of ministry, no one had ever asked me that question. I took a few days to think about […]