I want to invite you to come back to seminary with me . . . not for three years, but just for three days. Join me in Nashville next month for a BRAND NEW unique training event – the first-ever Renegade Pastors U. This is your opportunity to hear from the foremost experts in church growth, church leadership and church health, all … Read More
FREE Connect Book Summary Today – Double Your Volunteers
This week, I want to give you a FREE 15-Page Executive Summary of my book “Connect: How to Double Your Number of Volunteers.” Here’s why – when I first began pastoring, I had a “do-it-myself’ attitude. I was too timid to ask people to volunteer. But as the church began to grow, I realized I wouldn’t be able to keep … Read More
The Challenge of Leadership – A Saturday Quote
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur, author and speaker
It’s BACK! My FREE List of Best Books of 2014 (So Far!)
Looks like we have quite a few readers out there! I’ve had a number of requests to bring back my free list of this year’s best books. This is the best of the best – what you should be reading now to maximize your leadership and your ministry. Normally you’d have to wait until the end of the year to … Read More
Quotes of the Week – Best of Twitter
Leadership Tips from Nelson The ability to anticipate is what separates average leaders from excellent leaders. Keep an eye toward what’s coming down the pike. As a leader, you should always be thinking five steps ahead of everyone else. 4 Things a Leader Does: Learns, Engages, Anticipates, Decides. When you took on the role of pastor, you immediately became a leader … Read More
The Object of All Work
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas Edison
Why we MUST raise up new Worship Leaders
Do you remember when you first accepted the call to lead worship? Jason Hatley here (Pastor of Worship Arts @ The Journey and Founder of WorshipLeaderInsights.com). For me, it was 21 years ago this month that I said, “Yes!” to the call to ministry. Apart from my decision to follow Jesus at age 9, no other single decision in my life has had … Read More
Why Does the Church Growth Movement Matter Today?
More than likely, you are familiar with some general concept or idea of what we call the “Modern Day Church Growth Movement.” Now, I would argue that this is not new. The history of church growth goes all the way back to the Great Commission, to the early church. But in the modern day times when we think about the Church Growth Movement … Read More
It’s Our 8th Anniversary!
Just as our young church in New York City was breaking through the 500 barrier, I received a call asking me to teach the Church Planting track at Rick Warren’s annual May conference. I was humbled and excited… not sure if I could do it, but I said “yes.” The conference was to be six hours over three days and I … Read More
Aspire to Be More – A Saturday Quote
“Aspire to be something more than the mass of church members. Lift up your cry to God and beseech him to fire you with a nobler ambition than that which possesses the common Christian; that you may be found faithful unto God at the last, and may win many crowns for your Lord and Master, Christ.” —Charles Spurgeon