09/21/06 Tip Four: Team Unity

    One all too prominent condition found in congregational leadership teams is disunity. This lack of team unity is frequently rooted in a trio of factors: low levels of trust among team members, a tendency to only spend time...

09/21/06 Tip Three: Downsize Your Bureaucracy

    We’ve looked at leadership systems and role clarity.  Now, you need to make sure that your leadership team’s size corresponds with your intended outcomes. If the defined role of your leadership team is prayer support of the...

09/21/06 Tip One: Take a Close Look at Your Leadership System

    There are two components making up the “leadership system” in most congregations: the board and the operational management team.  This cohort is the formal leadership group, or groups, that execute the two core elements of...

09/21/06 Mega Churches Have Problems Too

Compare the top ten mega churches for 2003 and 2006. The changes are phenomenal.  Several churches took major hits in their attendance.

 2003

Lakewood Church (Oasis of Love) Houston 25,000 World Changers College Park, GA 23,000 Calvary...

09/15/06 Modernity

In Modernity humans were the great observers. What we saw and how we interpreted it became fiat law – even if it was wrong. The world was flat; the world was round. The earth was the center of the universe; the earth was merely a pebble in a pond....