Matthew Fretwell

Humility, help and heeding can cultivate dynamic leadership qualities. You may not be able to achieve perfection, but you can grasp excellence. To be a dynamic leader, nurture and develop dynamic prayer.

The next time you’re about to make decisions as a leader, think about Jehoshaphat: Unite people, pray first, and use wisdom.

Underneath the cool of the giant mango trees, I sat with them until late into the night. I patiently listened to their grievances with one another. While I was thousands of miles from my home ‒ deep in the jungle ‒ I felt as if I were in the middle of an American church business meeting ‒ division, bitterness, self-pride, and control. All of the characteristics that leadership should not emulate.

An outreach for the sake of outreach is still good works, and an outreach for Christ’s sake is edifying and glorifying to God ‒ but what if we utilize and then measure the initiative for greater purposes?

Here are three of the largest leadership obstacles.

If we strive to be excellent leaders, we must be intentional and passionate about serving Christ and His church ‒ moving forward, engaging culture. Leaders are born, but they can also be developed.

Our view of discipleship is skewed. For this reason, the church is not developing leaders because it is not creating disciple-makers. We need to reverse the course.

Revitalization is essential. It’s not easy and there are many ways, but as a revitalizing pastor, here are three observations of turnaround churches. The big question: if your church were to close its doors tomorrow, would anyone in the community care, notice, or react?

There is a growing divide between church importance and Millennials, and it’s not getting any better. To close the door of the divide, the church must relate the importance of salvation for the collective community ‒ the power of God on display ‒ through prayer, proclamation, and practice.

When we focus on our goals instead of our health, if we reach the goal, we have sacrificed an area of health (spiritual, emotional, physical, or relational). If we seek health before goals, we reach our goals healthily.

When teaching church leadership, there are specific qualities in leaders which should exist or be formulated. In a culturally shifted world, the church cannot...