Notable Voices and the Week in Review: February 17, 2018
Three Intentional Steps to Reaching Your Goals — Rob Hurtgen
The crowd at my local YMCA is getting thinner. And I’m not talking about waistlines. Approximately six weeks into the new year many who set the goal to “lose weight and get in shape” are no longer working on that goal. The thinning crowd is one example of how stating a goal is easy, but reaching a goal will require more of you than you thought. The same is true for your pastoral ministry. Someone, somewhere once said, “Goals are dreams with deadlines.” What then are some ways we can keep our dreams alive?
3 Things You Are Really Saying When You Bash Your Predecessor — Eric Geiger
If leadership is primarily about change, transformation, and the future, as many have advocated, then leaders are always change-oriented. And change always entails creating some dissatisfaction with the status quo. But wisely and skillfully creating dissatisfaction with the status quo is very different than subtly or overtly trashing and bashing the leaders who led before you. Sadly, it is common for leaders to bash those who led before them. Instead of honoring their contributions, they take shots. When a leader bashes his or her predecessor, here is what the leader is really saying:
10 Questions I Wonder if Churches Ever Ask — Chuck Lawless
I’m just thinking aloud here today as I wonder if many churches in North America ever ask these questions:
This Week at ThomRainer.com:
Five Reasons Why the Children’s Minister Is the Staff Position in Greatest Demand
We saw this trend five years ago. It is now a reality. The staff position of the greatest demand in congregations is the children’s minister…READ MORE
The Relationship Between Inviting and Church Health
Inviting churches tend to be healthier churches
An invitation is most effective when it’s one-to-one
In person are the most effective, but phone and digital are good as well
The most effective churches are striving to have annual invitations equal to the 10 times the average worship attendance
Moving from lag metrics to lead metrics
The Rise of Networks, Bivocational Pastors, and Other Listener Questions
by Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe | Rainer on Leadership
http://media.blubrry.com/thomrainer/s3.amazonaws.com/TheExchange/Episode406.mp3
12 Warning Signs of Potentially Bad Church Hires
by Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe | Rainer on Leadership
http://media.blubrry.com/thomrainer/s3.amazonaws.com/TheExchange/Episode407.mp3
Six Keys for Corporate Worship in a Replant
by Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe with Mark Clifton | Revitalize & Replant
http://media.blubrry.com/revitalizereplant/s3.amazonaws.com/TheExchange/RevitalizeReplant/RR-Episode028.mp3
