How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek
A great presentation by Simon Sinek that really ties in with the video in the previous post on education. This is a secular video about moving people to buy a product but the rationale of how people are inspired to move to action and where behavior comes from is helpful in how we present any […]
Andy Stanley – Liberating Your Organization
Andy Stanley tackles changing dysfunctional organizations in this DVD from Catalyst called Liberating Your Organization. He gives some really good nuts and bolts that can practically help leaders reclaim the direction and focus on a congregational level. This goes really deep into what the real issues of the organization are, how they really work, and […]
Guilt and Leadership
I found myself doing something this past Sunday in Bible class that I haven’t done in a long time. I used guilt as a motivator. When I am trying to motivate people to action my view has been to tell them what it is and why it is important and hopefully they will come. We […]
Perry Noble Has Some Posts to Check Out
A few posts from Perry Noble over the last few weeks that I thought were exceptional. Another blog to check out regularly, especially for ministers and church leaders. 10 Ways to Kill Vision in Your Church 5 Reasons We Are Doing a Singles Series Staffing, Ministry and Vision Dangers of Leadership Series: 1 – Jealousy, […]
Women’s Roles in the Church – Scot McKnight, Dan Kimball & N.T. Wright Weigh In
Looks like Scot McKnight is weighing in on this subject. I intend to talk about it more here in the coming week after we have our second discussion this Sunday in our 20s & 30s class. Here is the link to Jesus Creed. Here is also a link mentioned in the discussion there to something […]
Free Small Group Leadership Manual
I am posting the small group leadership manual that I developed for Northwest last year. If you are wanting to start small groups or maintain existing groups this could be a helpful tool in getting your leaders on the same page. The cover is really plain. Feel free to create your own cover page and […]
Transition from Traditional Bible Class to Missional 20 and 30 Somethings
We continue to work to make our 20s and 30s group at Northwest something better. I for one tend to be someone who types a bunch of thoughts in a blog post about this or that but I don’t always include a lot of nuts and bolts of how to get something done. This is […]
Moving From Contemplating the Biblical Navel to Real Application
I am guilty of writing a bunch of thoughts, opinions, and various and sundry other ways of contemplating the biblical navel and end the discussion gaining little more than having thought about something a little more or with a slight nuance. How many of you feel your life has never been the same since reading […]
Five Characteristics of a Good Small Group Leader
In line with the last post about five characteristics of a good teacher, here are five characteristics of a good small group leader. They know the purposes of the group and continually model and teach the group to carry out those purposes. Small group leaders are volunteers and they, like the rest of us, often […]
Identifying the Ripening Issues in the Church of Christ
One of Ronald Heiftetz’s principles of leadership in his book Leadership Without Easy Answers is to direct attention to ripening issues over distractions. These are issues that can make our break an organization or industry and must be identified and addressed in order to adapt with what is coming down the pipe. To ignore them […]