Josh Hunt's Blog, page 291

Over-communicate the vision

We tend to under communicate the vision. We don’t say it often enough. We need to say it, put it on banners, put it in the bulletin, and plaster it on posters. Create a logo that communicates it. Make it short, pithy, memorable, and repeatable. Say it often; say it well. I read a book […]

Vision: reduce it to a slogan

Step three is where most people start. Wise leaders create urgency and get a team first. Then comes the vision. The vision needs to fit on a business card. You need an “elevator speech.” This is something you can communicate in the time it takes for an elevator to travel from one floor to the […]

Change: who before what

Step two is to build a guiding team who will craft and carry out the vision. Who is on this team is of critical importance. They must be the natural leaders of the organization. They may or may not be the people whose names appear on the organizational chart. They may or may not be […]

Urgency

Change does not start with change. It doesn’t start with vision-casting. These will come later. It starts with urgency. It starts by starting the house on fire. Or, by persuading the church that the house is on fire. People are naturally resistant to change. If they don’t see a compelling reason to change they won’t […]

Something is changing

Something is changing in the American church. Maybe it is the environment. Maybe it is the church itself. If it is not corrected, it could kill us. I have been traveling and working with church leaders full-time over the last 15 years. My current account with American Airlines shows 2,155,306 lifetime miles. I’ve seen a […]

Change Your Church or Die

Your church is perfectly tuned to get the results you are now getting. If you keep doing what you have been doing, you will keep getting what have been getting. If you change. . . Well, you might lose your job. It might be a big brouhaha. This book is about changing your church and […]

Is this the right time to create a new group?

I have talked to three groups leaders who, for different reasons, face a situation where now may not be the best time to divide. The first one was very responsive. He said he felt convicted as I spoke. They had just divided their group. They had a group of fifty and they divided it into […]

How big should a group be?

I had a lady in Ohio come out of her chair to disagree with me at this point. “I disagree, Josh. I like big groups.” “How big?” I followed up. “About forty.” Pretty big by my standards, but, let’s go with that. Not all groups have to be the same size. It is O.K. to […]

What a difference groups make!

Group involvement makes attendees more likely to be intentional in spending time with other believers. There is greater than a 40 percent difference between the two groups when measuring the effort to intentionally make time for fellowship with other believers and to intentionally spend time with other believers to help spiritual growth. This should not […]

What a difference doubling groups make!

What a big difference small differences can make! Doubling teachers are not a lot smarter. They don’t work a lot harder. They are not a lot more talented. They are not a lot more dedicated. They are not a lot more spiritual. They don’t love God a lot more. But they do have one thing […]