Choosing Leaders: Who to Entrust and Who to Avoid
Every church planter must learn who to entrust with leadership and who to avoid. Here are eight traits of people to trust and seven of those to avoid.
Topic: Leadership Development
Resources for Residencies
As you look to resource your residency, three key components ought to be included to produce health.
Bold Approaches to Funding Residencies
When it comes to funding residencies, we have everything we need within arm’s reach to do everything God has asked of us.
Ways to Find Great Residents
What are the two best things any pastor could do to find great residents?
How to Build a Residency
You can build a lasting residency program that you deeply believe in by working through a process that helps you define three things: your terms, your why and your content.
Talking Internship with Mark Dever
Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., is well known for its effective intern program. Our Clint Clifton sat down with Mark Dever, the church’s senior pastor, to discuss the nuts and bolts of the program.
10 Signs a Church Leader Will Multiply
Most pastors who successfully lead their churches to multiply likely will share these 10 characteristics.
5 Lessons from ‘The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill’
Five crucial takeaways pastors and church leaders should glean from the podcast, “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill”
How Far Do We Go with Vulnerability?
That pastors ask regularly for prayer in the church should be a non-negotiable. But how transparent should we be with others about our own situations and struggles with sins?
How to Be Present in an Absent World
You’re a church planter, frantically trying to get your church started. You’re doing it in a…
11 New Year’s Resolutions for Church Planting Families
Are you approaching this new year with optimism, cynicism or a little of both? It can…
3 Dangers of Indecisiveness
Leaders make decisions; good leaders make them in time. If you are going to lead well, you must couple your desire to be faithful with a willingness to decide.
Your Church is Going to Die
People rarely consider how churches begin and almost never consider how they end. Churches, just like people, have lifecycles. They are born and they die. Where is your church in its lifecycle?
Confronting 5 Traits of Dysfunctional Teams
How do I avoid my team becoming dysfunctional? If it is dysfunctional, what do I do?
The Distinctions of Networked, Family, and Multisite Churches
Drew Hyun explains the differences between a networked church, a family of churches, and a multisite church in terms of structure.
3 Questions Pastors Must Ask
Having been around a lot of pastors at our various confabs across the world, I’ve noticed something unhealthy.
How 1 Hour of Equipping Can Give You Weeks of Easy Leadership Development
Devote an hour this week to equipping your potential leaders in their next step.
Three Differences Between a Campus Pastor and an Associate Pastor
Sam Yoon shares three things that make being the #1 guy different from being the #2 guy.
5 Things Leaders Need to Give Up
Leadership is about motivating and encouraging and organizing your team to reach new goals.
The Three Things Every Campus Pastor Needs to Do
To be effective in ministry, you need to do these three things well.
God Will Allow More Than You Can Bear: Dispelling the Myth
God has not promised that trials will not overwhelm us. The opposite appears to be true in Scripture.
4 Ways to Find Launch Members
To plant a church you need a solid launch team. Get the best practices from Daniel Im on growing your launch team.
3 Ways Tesla Affects Your Church Metrics
What do you think would happen if you reimagined your church’s dashboard?
6 Mistakes I Made as a Church Planter
Mark Dance shares the mistakes he made as a church planter to equip you not to repeat them.
The Pressure of the Pastorate
Shawn Lovejoy speaks to the difficulties of pastoring and the need for relationships.
The Sin and Dangers of Criticism
Ask yourself these probing questions if you struggle with a critical spirit.
5 Tips for Dealing with Stress in Ministry
Dustin Neeley shares five helpful tips when dealing with stress in ministry.
Discipleship From a Systems Perspective
Ed Stetzer and Daniel Im talk about discipleship from a systems perspective based on Daniel’s new book, No Silver Bullets.
My Top 5 Church Planting Lessons
Shawn Lovejoy shares helpful and encouraging advice about leading in ministry.
Campus Pastor Skill #1: How to Close a Service
As a regular and ongoing rhythm, the campus pastor needs to close out the service.
Being The Wife Of A Husband In Ministry
The wife of a ministry husband will often find herself navigating a complex set of relationships as they seek to serve in Gospel work together.
Trend #2 for the Future of Church Planting: Bivocational Ministry
Instead of looking down on pastors for being bivocational, we should lift them up as our heroes.
How to Build Your Campus Launch Template
One of the biggest benefits to being multisite is that you can begin to build systems that allow you to launch new churches.
