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How to Keep Leading (And Growing) When 10%, 20% or 40% of Your Church Disappears
By Carey Nieuwhof: One of the biggest challenges most pastors are facing right now is that a meaningful percentage of their congregation seems to have disappeared. Or at least they think that’s what’s happening. In the current climate of reopened in-person services, online church, so many people moving and the […]
Three Ministry and Volunteer Audits to Consider
Home > Blog > Three Ministry and Volunteer Audits to Consider Three Ministry and Volunteer Audits to Consider By Todd Adkins By Todd Adkins We cannot eliminate uncertainty. In this season of ministry, we can only address what is known. When it comes to the number of volunteers we need […]
Four Signs that You Might Believe in Easy Jesus
By Discipleship.org: Whenever someone says that they believe in Jesus, I always wonder to myself, Which Jesus? What I call “Easy Jesus” is a common alternative to the real Jesus in my culture and context. Easy Jesus is, of course, easy to believe in because he only teaches what I […]
Applying Pandemic Learnings from Church Online to Post-Pandemic Church with Jenn Clauser
By unSeminary: Thanks for joining in for this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re talking with Jenn Clauser, the Director of Communications at Coker United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas. She’s with us today to dig deeper into online church and how to integrate it as a core part of our […]
How To Lead Better One-on-One Meetings
By Shawn Lovejoy: Of all of the tensions you will face as a leader, the tension you will have the most self-doubt and inner turmoil over is the tension around the people you lead. I am talking about Team Tensions! Ever felt those? Thought so. So have I! While I […]
Why Role Clarity Is Vital
Home > Blog > Why Role Clarity Is Vital Why Role Clarity Is Vital By New Churches Team During COVID, so many churches changed people’s job descriptions. Many people, both paid staff and volunteers, may not have even had a job description. Some churches saw higher rates of attendance and […]
CNLP 417: Simon Sinek on Why the Church is Losing Ground, the Importance of Existential Flex and How Deep, Personal Crisis Spawned Start With Why
By Carey Nieuwhof: Simon Sinek unpacks his back story, including how his grandfather shaped him, how ADHD impacted his leadership and how a deep, personal crisis led to him developing the ideas behind Start With Why. Simon also talks about how existential flex is so important in a post-pandemic world, […]
Episode 594: Leading People You Don’t Like
By NewChurches.com: In Episode 594 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss how you lead people you don’t like. In This Episode, You’ll Discover: Why it’s important to learn how to handle difficult team members How prayer can draw you closer together Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches): “In a multisite […]
Pete Briscoe’s Lessons from Coming Alongside Senior Leaders to Help with Communication & Self Care
By unSeminary: Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Pete Briscoe, who served as the senior pastor for nearly three decades at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship in Carrollton, Texas, and now consults with and coaches pastors. He is with us today to talk about growing communication skills […]
How to Pastor a Mob
By Craig Nieuwhof: How do you pastor a mob? The truth is you can’t. At least not easily. The only problem is that right now you have to. In the last few years, we’ve moved from an era of reasonable consensus to polarization, partisanship, and division. That’s true of congregations, boards, […]