Strategize Your Way to Better Communication
by: Philip Nation
Five principles that you can begin using immediately to help you communicate better.
ABOUT PHILIP NATION
serve as the Director of Advancement and Global Impact Churches with the Baptist World Alliance and frequently speak at churches and conferences. I earned a Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 2010-2012, I was the national spokesperson for the Back to Church Sunday campaign from Outreach. Over the years, I’ve served as a pastor, minister of education, and a church planter.
My latest published work is the video-based Bible study Pursuing Holiness: Applications from James. In 2016, I published Habits for Our Holiness: How the Spiritual Disciplines Grow Us Up, Draw Us Together, and Send Us Out with Moody Publishers. I’ve coauthored two other books: Compelled: Living the Mission of God and Transformational Discipleship: How People Really Grow. I was also the general editor of The Mission of God Study Bible. Along the way, I have written the small-group studies Storm Shelter: Psalms of God’s Embrace, Compelled by Love: The Journey to Missional Living and Live in the Word, plus contributed to The Great Commission Resurgence: Fulfilling God’s Mandate in Our Lifetime.
When Mature Leaders Know It’s Time to Crash the System
by: Philip Nation
The willingness to crash the system is a sign of mature leadership, not of embracing chaos.
9 Ways to Uncomplicate the Discipleship Process
by: Philip Nation
9 principles to help keep discipleship simple.
Asking These 20 Questions of Others Will Help You Become a Better Leader
by: Philip Nation
20 Questions, Leadership Development, Learning, Philip Nation
To more intentionally learn from others, here is a list of 20 questions you can pose to more and more people.
10 Ways Buzzwords Are Undermining Your Leadership
by: Philip Nation
A key facet of leadership is knowing the difference between a strategy and a collection of buzzwords.
Balancing Life, Work, and Ministry: 6 Issue for the Bivocational Pastor
by: Philip Nation
As a bivocational pastor, I am constantly looking for the proper balance in life, work, and professional ministry. As I have thought through it all, for my own sanity, I decided to make a quick list of the top issues I am working through.
Less Can Be More: How Ruthless Calendaring Will Make Your Work More Productive
by: Philip Nation
Meetings, Philip Nation, Staff Culture, calendaring, effectiveness
How can ruthless calendaring make this year more productive in your 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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