Tag: success
2 Essential Guidelines for Your Goals
By Shawn Lovejoy: With all this talk about goal setting and New Year’s Resolutions, I thought it was important to clarify something very foundational when it comes to goal setting. When charting our aim for a new year the question we must answer is, “Why do I want to accomplish […]
How Do You Measure Church Plant Success?
Home > Blog > How Do You Measure Church Plant Success? How Do You Measure Church Plant Success? By New Churches Team Timing for how to measure church plant success can be tricky. There are two big phases: (1) core and launch team development and (2) going public. Core and […]
9 Considerations for Reopening Your Church
Home > Blog > 9 Considerations for Reopening Your Church 9 Considerations for Reopening 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 […]
PODCAST 051: Ed Stetzer & Defining a Successful Church
by Jeff Reed: What makes a successful Digital Church? Church Online? Church overall? What is it? I’ll tell you what it’s not: our Sunday morning attendance numbers… yet this is where many of our analytics (and attention, for that matter) stop. A quote from Ed Stetzer years ago has always […]
5 Lessons Learned as a Church Planter
Home > Blog > 5 Lessons Learned as a Church Planter 5 Lessons Learned as a Church Planter By Dustin Neeley Many people share in the success stories of their church plants. Many church planters are quick to tell you the great things happening at their current campus. As encouraging […]
Significance, Satisfaction, & Leading Yourself to the Next Level with Shawn Lovejoy
by unSeminary: Welcome back to this week’s unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have Shawn Lovejoy with us, the founder and CEO of Courage to Lead. Shawn has been a pastor, a church planter, an entrepreneur, and a leadership coach. He started coaching pastors in 2001. Courage to Lead is there […]
Overcoming Three Big Leadership Fears
by Brandon A. Cox: I’m a leader. And it’s likely that you are too, whether you’re in an officially recognized leadership position or not. Leadership is influence, and it’s pretty much guaranteed you’re influencing people – employees, kids, a spouse, a church or small group, etc. I agree with the […]
8 Gifts to “Pour Into” the Leaders You’re Developing
by Brandon A. Cox: It’s great to be “pouring into” people. That’s a popular phrase in today’s leadership environment. I’ve used it because I like the word picture of it. Whatever I may have learned about life and leadership, I’m supposed to be passing along to others. But what does the […]
How to Be Successful Like David Brainerd
by Brandon A. Cox: How do you define success? Most of us think about our net worth, our ranking at work, or our preparedness for a blissful and happy retirement. The problem with success, defined in conventional terms, is that it’s usually a moving target. I create a sort of […]