5 Prep Questions for a New Year
by: Dan Reiland
2019 is a month old! Is your direction clear? Are your plans complete? Is your lead team onboard?
ABOUT DAN REILAND
Dr. Dan Reiland serves as Executive Pastor at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He previously partnered with John Maxwell for 20 years, first as Executive Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, then as Vice President of Leadership and Church Development at INJOY. He and Dr. Maxwell still enjoy partnering on a number of church related projects together.
Dan is best known as a leader with a pastor's heart, but is often described as one of the nations most innovative church thinkers. His passion is developing leaders for the local church so that the Great Commission is advanced.
5 Pillars of Every Strong Volunteer Culture
by: Dan Reiland
Here’s a practical framework to help you build a culture in which both staff and volunteers thrive.
Your Phone Battery is Not the Only Thing that Needs Recharging
by: Dan Reiland
The basics of a healthy balance for work and rest are the same for everyone. But because each person’s situation is a little different, each solution is a little different.
5 Keys to Cultivating an Environment of Growth
by: Dan Reiland
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In a rapidly changing culture where the Bible is an option to as many as it is the inerrant Word of God, it’s challenging to create an environment of abiding faith in Jesus.
Visionary Leaders Should Stop Doing These Seven Things
by: Dan Reiland
There are things we do as leaders that consume and deplete our energy that we don’t have to do, and in fact, should stop doing.
4 Critical Questions to Make Great Decisions
by: Dan Reiland
Decision-making is an essential skill for effective leadership. The encouraging news is that decision-making is a skill; you can practice and get better at it.
These Few Keys Create Great First Impressions
by: Dan Reiland
The first ten seconds matter, and in the first ten minutes decisions are being made. One way or the other, your guests make lightning-fast decisions about your church.
Phrases That Welcome – And Repel – First Time Guests
by: Dan Reiland
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It’s always disappointing when you invite someone, and they won’t come, but it’s devastating when someone does come, but because of their experience won’t come back.
3 Qualities of a Self-Controlled Leader
by: Dan Reiland
Without self-control, a leader will be sidelined, derailed, or perhaps taken out of ministry.
3 “Check Engine” Lights for Pastors
by: Dan Reiland
It’s often difficult to discern the level of your spiritual growth when you are professionally immersed in spiritually oriented church work.
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Thank you Ed for sharing your insights into the Church Growth Movement. I have my reservations with Church Growth models because it has done more damage than good in the Body of Christ. Over the years, western churches are more focused on results, formulas and processes with little or no emphasis on membership and church discipline. Pastors and vocational leaders are burnt out because they're overworked.
I do believe that the Church Growth model is a catalyst to two destructive groups: The New Apostolic Reformation and the Emerging Church. Both groups overlap and have a very loose definition. They're both focus on contemporary worship, expansion of church brand (franchising), and mobilizing volunteering members as 'leaders' to grow their ministry. Little focus on biblical study, apologetics and genuine missional work with no agenda besides preaching of the gospel.
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Thank you for sharing such a good article. It is a great lesson I learned from this article. I am one of the leaders in Emmanuel united church of Ethiopia (A denomination with more-than 780 local churches through out the country). I am preparing a presentation on succession planning for local church leaders. It will help me for preparation If you send me more resources and recommend me books to read on the topic. I hope we may collaborate in advancing leadership capacity of our church. God Bless You and Your Ministry.
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Amen!!
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