Leadership Reflections

Here’s a not-so-obvious way to think about your leadership.  If you grab and run with it, you will have a far more engaged support base that is better informed and equipped to be champions for your ministry.  Tim Keller wrote in an essay, Creation, Evolution, and Christian Laypeople, that as pastors “we are to be a [...]

At the same time that many senior staff leaders have been hired to provide organizational leadership to Christian charities, most of these leaders have also been excluded from the organization’s highest leadership body, the board. Exclusion could be due to the law, a governance model, or even just sensitivity to the public’s demand for greater [...]

If I told you that we were going to visit a church called The Chapel on Fir Hill, what would you expect?  Well, I did visit this church (about 1990) and when I arrived at the church, I was shocked to say the least!  This ‘chapel’ turned out to be a 209,000 s.f. building and there were [...]

I’ve just finished writing a workshop for the upcoming CCCC annual conference.  It is #8 on the list of workshop descriptions, “A Christian Perspective on Strategy Development“.  While writing it, I had a thought: Jesus, the ultimate leader, didn’t write a strategic plan for his disciples.   I wondered, what might a strategic plan have looked like if the apostles had felt they needed to write one?  Let’s speculate with [...]