Does your commitment to strategic planning quench the Holy Spirit? Should a Christian ministry do strategic planning at all? A brief study of Paul’s second missionary trip will provide the answer. Paul’s Example Paul’s first missionary trip was very fruitful due to the many churches he planted in Asia. Good leadership and strategic planning would dictate a [...]
A few ways to think about the leader-staff relationship
When you think about the relationship between you and your team, you have a model in mind whether you’ve explicitly thought about it or not. Here are four ways I think about my fellow staff members at CCCC that I find helpful. Each comes from a different perspective and together they provide the basis for a well-rounded understanding of [...]
Loving Leadership
“Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, so compelling that when — in a decade, a century, or a millenium — we grasp it, we will say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so blind for so long?” What is the simple, beautiful, [...]
Theological Leadership
One of the research findings from my dissertation on church-agency relations is that many Christian agency leaders do not have formal theological training. The pastors said this is a problem. Since agencies are Christian ministries, I recommend that at least the senior leader of a Christian agency get some formal theological training, not just to please pastors [...]
Caring for the “weak and defenseless” on your team
One of the most pleasant aspects of my job is meeting people who work in Christian ministry. Many of these are in some level of leadership, and they are very nice people. A well-known truism, though, is that power corrupts. So all these nice people I’ve met, and me too, need to be concerned that we [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
