Two Kinds of Churches Part 3: Why Do Obedient Christians Still Fail? Is your church focused on teaching people how to deal with their symptoms OR, to deal with their unfinished business? If you asked me when I was part of the reformational church what I was learning...
Two Kinds of Churches Part 2: Is Your Church Reforming or Transforming? There’s a big push among North American churches to be transformative because leaders realize how spiritually impoverished the country has become. Both newly started and established churches are...
Indispensable Leadership Skills #5: Let’s Get Honest about Restoration He made the front page of the local paper. His sin was published almost before he was released on bail. Both his employers and his church closed their doors to him immediately. He was unclean, a...
Indispensable Leadership Skills #4: Let’s Get Honest about Reconciliation Divisions happen between the best of leaders. Reconciliation happens less often. Paul and Barnabas, who God personally picked out to take the gospel into Cyprus and what is modern-day Turkey,...
Indispensable Leadership Skills #3: Let’s Get Honest About Confession At a prayer conference, the speaker, Daniel Henderson, instructed the participants to break up into groups of three and confess to each other a personal sin with which they were struggling, then...
Indispensable Leadership Skills #2: Let’s Get Honest about Repentance I think we all know that leaders are not the untouchables—those who can do no wrong. We know we need to be open to the convicting work of the Spirit. We know we need to be the ones who quickly...
