Community

Ministry is shifting. If you’ve been in children’s ministry for a while (as many of you have), you might feel like your skills are growing...

Whether you realize or not, relationships are the fuel that feeds your success, and are often highlighted as an important part of your role...

After glimpsing pain in my neighbor’s eyes my curiosity was stoked. That moment has led us to five years of immersion into the lives...

The most effective leader development efforts are conducted within a living community of people in which the emerging leaders function and participate.

While writing this, I am watching four seagulls that are initially sunning themselves on the sand. Then suddenly two start squawking at the other two and a battle is begun, until one party is intimidated and retreats. But no reconciliation or resolution has taken place. How often does that happen in life?

Groupthink lulls a team into deadly complacency. Here’s how to know if your team is already there.

Trust is such a fragile commodity. It can easily be broken even before it is built. Yet we know trust is the foundation for healthy organizational behavior.

It’s easy to look at our brothers and sisters and see their warts and blemishes. Yet the perfect One, the holy One, the One without a single imperfection doesn’t look on His people the way we often do.

The longer a great team is together, the better it seems to work together, but it starts with finding the right people to join the team.

I think it’s vital to a healthy team that the leader be continually conscious of his or her need for influence and ways to improve upon it.

Ultimately, God has made us ‒ even as leaders ‒ to connect best with other specific people. We must wholeheartedly seek them out and refuse to settle for second best by sometimes saying “no” to certain people in order to say “yes” to others.

We all want better, truer, deeper Christian community. We all want to grow personally. But how do we get there? Scripture has a surprising answer:...