Leadership Reflections

Special Invitation! CCCC is in the midst of a major strategic review.  If you’d like to interact with us as the review progresses, please visit the Strategic Review Engagement website.  I want to open source the strategic review by having as many non-board, non-staff people engage with us as possible.  In this blog, I am writing about [...]

Leaders read lots of leadership books, both Christian and secular.  How do you tell which secular practices may be used in Christian ministry and which should not?   That’s the question!  At Arrow Leadership’s Gala, George Barna said something remarkable: “People lack trust in leaders because of the poor character demonstrated by so many leaders. My interviews with 6,000 [...]

CCCC is reviewing its strategic statements and as we do, I’m doing my best to be faithful to our Christian identity and leave room for God to speak into the process. Over a couple of posts I will lay out a review process which I hope you will find fresh, stimulating and effective. The Strategic [...]

I sure would appreciate getting your perspective on the topic of the day!!!  How much risk are you prepared to accept for your ministry based on faith that God will provide?  Do you have big faith that God will provide and then you act?  Or do you have big faith that God will provide when [...]

Here, in a nutshell, is the issue about strategic planning in a Christian ministry context: What sets the strategic limitations for your ministry – your circumstances or your mission? It can’t be clearer than that.  Environmental scans and SWOT analysis, the traditional strategic planning tools, focus too much on your circumstances, the reality of the world [...]