What Positions Are on God’s Most-Needed List? This three-part series looks at what the Bible has to say about placing people on your team or joining a team yourself. Three valid questions any organization or church should ask before hiring staff or inviting volunteers to serve are: Is this position really necessary? How does the…
Read MoreA Practical Way to Build Unity in Your Staff Conflict, Part 4 As I travel the country and world speaking to leaders, my heart breaks hearing their stories. Division in churches has become so commonplace that those of us in ministry have either experienced a split or know someone who has. It may shock you…
Read MoreConflict: The Choice Leaders Make Every Day Each day, leaders have a choice: they can judge members of their team or they can value each member’s uniqueness. When a staff member regularly questions your approach, how do you respond? The choice you make determines whether your team lives or dies. Let’s check back in on…
Read MorePart 2 of 4 If you’re a ministry leader, conflict is unavoidable. But how do you make the move from conflict to cooperation? Remember Don (lead pastor) and Mark (executive pastor) from our previous article? Neither begins their day trying to frustrate or isolate the other. But that seems to be happening now more than…
Read MorePart 1 of 4 in a series on overcoming conflict Even Jesus faced conflict, both internally (the disciples were experts at sniping and one-upmanship) and externally (Jewish leaders questioned Jesus’ tactics and motivation.) So when you’re challenged, confronted, opposed, pressured, or intimidated, how do you respond? Don and Mark served together at a sizable church…
Read MoreMaterials Need For this Exercise Two tables or flat surfaces Four unopened packages of 3×5 index cards (lined or unlined, any color). With a felt tip marker, write on two of the packages “DO NOT OPEN” Timing device: stopwatch, timer, or watch with seconds measurement Instructions The point of the first exercise is to break the ice…
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Read MoreA while back, Gail and I went to the Nashville Symphony with our daughter, Mary, and her husband, Chris. Mary had bought tickets for Gail’s birthday. It was a magnificent evening. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/StudioThreeDots The experience invited some powerful leadership lessons. The orchestra was conducted by the renowned Hugh Wolff. He and the orchestra…
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