Tod Bolsinger’s recent webinar for MM pastors was outstanding. A recording will soon be available, and you should watch it. One thing that Tod touched on was Heifetz and Linsky’s provocative notion that leadership means “disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb” [1]...
Webster’s Dictionary defines leadership as the following: “the office or position of a leader,” “the capacity to lead,” or “the act or an instance of leading” (Merriam-Webster, 2018). If you were to randomly ask a number of people how they define leadership, I suspect you would get...
If you want to lead change (and, frankly change is needed in our churches, communities, nation, and world), communication is key. I have been reading and thinking about leading change and have noted several components of effective communication: Communication with God is essential. No change is...
Recently I met with a pastor who wanted my advice about launching a new worship service at the church he serves. He shared with me timelines, objectives, strategies, and the detailed agendas for the next several months of launch team meetings. I paused. “Ok, sounds...
Leadership is a choice. This is apparently controversial, but more than any other element I can track, leadership occurs when someone decides it's important that they lead. The challenge, then, is in making the choice to lead...
I would like to invite you to do one new thing. I’ll get to what it is in a minute. The evidence is in and, honestly, if you hang which nonchurch people at all, you can verify this yourself, that one of the features that marks...
I hope you’ve seen this 2011 viral video of this amazing kid’s rendition of DC Talk’s “Nu Thang,” If you haven’t, lighten up your day a bit and take a look: Typically, when I hear someone quote Isaiah 43:19, in which the Lord says, “I am...
Theologian N.T. Wright has reminded us that the gospel “is news, not advice.” That news, coming in the days of celebration of the incarnation is straight-forward: God has come to us in Jesus Christ. Grace abounds. Love wins. And everything the church is called to...
I know a family who got hockey sticks and pucks for their two older sons and an electric guitar for their younger son for Christmas. By noon, the boys had broken all of the garage windows and shorted out the electrical system! That family did...