Category: Leadership
3 Keys to Raising Women Leaders in the Church
Home > Blog > 3 Keys to Raising Women Leaders in the Church 3 Keys to Raising Women Leaders in the Church By Ed Stetzer Raising up women leaders should matter to all of us, but it requires an oft-lacking intentionality. Women make up more than half the church, and […]
Great Leaders Protect the Mission
by Ken Adams: All teams succeed when they are unified. That is true of an athletic team, a business team, or a disciple making team. Can you imagine a professional or collegiate football team trying to win a championship if the quarterback is doing his own thing regardless of what […]
What is Most Essential in Your Church Right Now?
Home > Blog > What is Most Essential in Your Church Right Now? What is Most Essential in Your Church Right Now? By Todd Adkins What ministry is most essential to your church, and how do you carry it out? Often, leaders recognize a change is desperately needed, so they […]
7 Weird Lies About Online Church Pastors Need To Stop Believing
by Carey Nieuwhof: You’ve had so much change thrown at you this year, it’s hard to know what to do. Especially about church online. As more and more churches re-gather, it will be easier than ever to look at church online as something you had to do to survive, or […]
Why You Shouldn’t Quit Ministry Right Now, Even Though You Feel Like It
by Carey Nieuwhof: You’ve probably thought about quitting recently. The data David Kinnaman, President of Barna Group shares weekly on our joint podcast, Church Pulse Weekly, shows that pastors are more discouraged than ever, are worried about much lower effectiveness in their ministry post-COVID, and that 20% of churches might […]
Leading #beyondthehashtag
By Doug Holliday: Last week I was in Denver for meetings with our ministry partner, Dare 2 Share, when the words of a respected Christian leader blew up social media. As we all have seen in the past month and even recent years, the words of leaders have an effect […]
Projected Leadership
by Josh Chumley: I was a psych major in college and any good or bad psych major knows the infamous Sigmund Freud. One of the staples of a good Freudian theorist is the concept of projection. Basically, how you feel (anger, sadness, etc.) about your parents, authorities, other people in […]
What are leading churches doing for weekend programming this fall? Roundtable discussion with Ben Stapley, Chris Vacher & Brian Tome.
by unSeminary: How committed are we really to forging the future rather than preserving the past? Today we’ve got another special episode of the unSeminary podcast where we sit down with three fantastic church leaders from around North America—Ben Stapley, Chris Vacher and Brian Tome—and ask them some questions about […]
Deconstructing the Lies We Believe
Home > Blog > Deconstructing the Lies We Believe Deconstructing the Lies We Believe By New Churches Team Who Do These Lies Apply To? In You Are What You Do: And Six Other Lies About Work, Life, and Love, Daniel Im outlines seven lies that the culture says are truth. […]
Great Leaders Do the Mission
By Ken Adams: After a half century of involvement with my local church, I have concluded that there are two types of leaders: those who talk about the mission of making disciples, and those who actually do it. Do the Work If you find a leader who actually does the […]