What do you do when your vision is growing apart from your church’s vision? That was the question posed by a young man I’m mentoring these days. He’s on staff in a local church, and is finding that the direction he wants to take his department is at odds with the overall direction of the…
How to Avoid Painting Yourself into 4 Common Leadership Corners
How often have you found yourself facing a leadership challenge where you asked yourself, “How did I get into this mess?” Unfortunately, sometimes the answer is that you may have put yourself in that position. I call this “painting yourself into a leadership corner”. And the best way…
5 Easy Steps to Becoming an Inauthentic Communicator
Authenticity is one of the most important lenses through which your congregation filters what happens when you communicate. But actually being authentic in your communication isn’t always easy. It requires the effort and discipline to be yourself. On the other hand, being inauthentic when you communicate is actually…
Has Your Church Been Infiltrated by Internet Christianity?
Take a listen to the conversations taking place in and around your church these days. Are you hearing anything like this? “Did you hear what they’re saying about Rick Warren?” “You know, I really think we need more teaching about the end times.” “You have to read this email that’s going around. It has a…
4 Ways to Get Your Church Unstuck
At our recent series of Innovate leadership forums we asked this question; “What one word best describes your church today?” From Vancouver to Moncton, one of the words we heard over and over was this: Stuck! We then profiled Canadian church leaders whose church had found ways to get things moving again. These were the…
