Category: Leadership
Realign, Restructure, and Reopen Your Church
Home > Blog > Realign, Restructure, and Reopen Your Church Realign, Restructure, and Reopen Your Church By Todd Adkins This season may not seem beautiful at the moment, but I believe we have a unique opportunity to see our ministries thrive today and in the days to come. Some of […]
National Church Leader Survey on Attitudes Towards In-Person, Remote, or Hybrid Work Arrangements
By unSeminary: Is your team moving back to an “in-person” office experience? Do you know how your team members feel about working at home once life looks a little more normal? What does the future of church leadership work arrangements look like? We must understand the impact that COVID-19 has […]
Servant Leadership with Dino Rizzo
By Shawn Lovejoy: Servant leadership is not an isolated event. It is a cultural shift. In this episode of The CourageToLead Podcast with Shawn Lovejoy, we are joined by Dino Rizzo, Executive Director of ARC Churches, Associate Pastor at Church of the Highlands, and author of Servolution. Shawn and Dino […]
Expanding the Leadership Voices at Your Table with Jeannette Cochran
By unSeminary: Thanks for joining us for the unSeminary podcast. This week we’re chatting with Jeannette Cochran, executive pastor Seneca Creek Community Church in Maryland. Jeannette is talking with us today about what it is like being a female executive pastor in a church and how you can empower more […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
The Coming Church Split (It’s Not What You Think)
Is there a split in the future church ahead? Unfortunately, I think the answer is yes. It’s not your typical (and usually awful) church split about doctrine, polity, personality or the color of the carpet. It’s bigger than that, and for the most part, you won’t even realize it’s happening […]