Choose Your Anxiety
Your goal, of course, should be to create a church culture that is so vision-centric that there is more anxiety … Continue reading Choose Your Anxiety
Category: Leadership
Avoid Sieges
The rule is, not to besiege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided. The Art of War, Sun Tzu … Continue reading Avoid Sieges
Into the Deep
To do your best, you need to focus. But how? Continue reading Into the Deep
There Are Facts and There are Facts
The knowledge thus provided is more than the facts about the problem – it also includes the facts about the … Continue reading There Are Facts and There are Facts
What Are You Eating?
Our brains instead construct our worldview based on what we pay attention to. Deep Work, Cal Newport* “You are what … Continue reading What Are You Eating?
Stepping Outside Ourselves
We know so much about our church that it’s difficult for us to program with the first-timer in mind. Deep … Continue reading Stepping Outside Ourselves
Seeing Both Sides
Hence in the wise leader’s plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together. The Art of War, … Continue reading Seeing Both Sides
The Loudest in the Room
You give the loudest person, regardless of their spiritual maturity or commitment to the church’s mission, the opportunity to influence … Continue reading The Loudest in the Room
What’s Lost in the Change?
Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash [First, it] is the losses, not the changes, that they’re reacting to; and second, that … Continue reading What’s Lost in the Change?
To Equip the Saints
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash Our job is to equip them with the basic tools and resources so that they … Continue reading To Equip the Saints
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