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How to Tell if Your Church Values Are Real or Just Words on the Wall
Ask five staff members to name your values and most will get close. Then watch what happens Tuesday in the...
Read PostHow to Tell If a Staff Member Is Misaligned or Just Misplaced
There is a staff member you have been thinking about since spring, and you still have not said anything out...
Read PostWhy Church Growth and Disciple-Making Need Separate Scoreboards
You can recite your church's numbers without notes, and every one of them is accurate. So why does the conversation...
Read PostSix Ambition Checks Every Pastor Should Build In
You will be the last person in the building to feel the drift. Everyone else has already started adjusting around...
Read PostWhat to Do When Someone Calls Your Church Culture “Toxic”
The word toxic has no defense. Once it lands, you are no longer talking about pace or expectations, you are...
Read PostWhy Every Leader Should Keep Preparing Even When Their Plan is Working
Preparation is important, and it is almost never urgent. That's why the churches least ready for disruption are usually the...
Read PostA Culture of Accountability Starts on Your Calendar
It's Thursday. The work you handed off three weeks ago isn't done, and you're choosing between an awkward conversation and...
Read PostPeople Won’t Fund a Great Vision That They Don’t Yet Trust
Nobody stood up and said no. The room was with you. Then the financials came in and the number wasn't...
Read PostWhy Defining the Win Before Asking for Feedback is the Secret to Growth
You ask the person you trust most how the sermon landed, and they tell you it was encouraging. That answer...
Read PostYour Discipleship Path Is Missing Something Critical
You preached it clean. Clear ask, exact location, no apologizing. Then Monday showed you eleven responses out of six hundred,...
Read PostYour Congregation Cannot Out-Commit Its Leadership
Group signups are flat. Serving teams are thin. Giving is behind budget. Then somebody in the staff meeting says the...
Read PostWhy Bible Sales Are Up and Bible Confidence Is Down (And What We Can Do About It)
Your people own more Bibles than any generation in American history and can navigate fewer of them. That is not...
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