“If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.” 1 Corinthians 15:14 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless. And so is: Your leadership development Your vision Your team building Your bold initiative Your upcoming staff retreat Your registration at the Global Leadership Summit Your blog subscription…
A Leader’s Reflection on Good Friday…
Originally posted April 6, 2012 For many Christ followers, Good Friday is merely the warm-up act to the main event; Easter Sunday. But I believe there is tremendous “soul-filling” value for leaders in focusing on a key moment in the Good Friday narrative. It starts by looking at two critical “walks” that God took with…
Are You Recruiting Church Leaders with Free Steak Knives?
Originally posted June 1, 2012 When it comes to building your church’s leadership teams, do you recruit or do you cultivate? Every church faces the reality that it might soon need two new elders, three deacons, a new head of the finance committee, and so on. But while some churches scramble to “fill these slots”,…
3 “Don’ts” When Dealing with Complainers
Originally posted July 17,2012 “Our small group curriculum is too much fluff!” “I can never find out what’s going on around the church!” “Why do we sing so many old hymns?!” Image via iStockPhoto.com If you’re a church leader, you’ve likely heard each of these complaints, or some variation on these themes. The point is,…
3 Critical Lessons the Church in the West Must Learn from the Church in China
China is a land of remarkable contrasts and contradictions. And as my current trip through China has reminded me, these contrasts are also to be found in the Church. As mentioned in my last blog, China has more than 100 million Christians and prints more bibles than anywhere else in the world. Yet in some…
