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5 Decisions Every Church Must Make

I believe the church’s mission is the most important mission on the planet.

Do you believe that, as well?

If so, this post is for you: 5 Decisions Every Church Must Make.

If you’re not ready to do some hard work to move the KIngdom forward, perhaps skipping this post is best. ????

Also… if you read this and want to discuss these decisions, let me know. I am launching a new COURSE and MASTERCLASS on the Church Engagement Journey soon.

6 Strategies to Keep the Mission Ahead of Your Ambition

Like you, I was born with some ambition.

I feel like ambition gets a bad rap.

For a leader, personal ambition isn’t too problematic until it supplants the organizational mission.

That’s when selfish ambition takes control, dominating the organizational mission, hurting others in the organization, and imploding the leader over time.

In this NEW POST, I offer 6 strategies to help keep the mission ahead of your ambition. I also gave you a key question to ponder with each strategy.

I’d love to hear which strategy feels most helpful to you in your current season of leadership.

As I’m transitioning off our church staff, I’m heavily focused on strategy # 4.

As always, I’d love to help. That’s why I created Transformation Solutions.

Recently I’ve been helping churches with their:
1. Hybrid church strategies, and
2. Staff culture.

Both seem to be needed as we emerge from the pandemic.

Could Your Growing Ministry be Responsible for Your Shrinking Passion?

What do you do when your pastoring passion is declining?

It happens to us all, so we better have some answers.

Unfortunately, too many of our answers involve walking away from ministry, from our current churches, and from even our families, friends, and ourself.

A loss of passion can happen for many, many reasons. I’d like for us to consider one of the most common and equally hidden of them all. I stumbled upon this truth a year or more ago. I was in a funk. I was partially questioning my role, my responsibilities, and even ministry as a profession. I considered reentering the marketplace. As I began contemplating how I arrived in the funk, I realized over time our church (and everything around it) had grown somewhat substantially. Initially, this realization didn’t connect any dots. But, it did begin to launch a discovery process.

To go back in time a bit… A few years ago we would have our staff meeting in my car on the way to lunch. We were a much smaller church with way fewer resources. The entire staff served as the president and the janitor. We were all needed for basically every element of ministry that happened in and through our church. As we grew, we added staff. We added complexity. We added complications. We added a building. Throughout the change, our roles and responsibilities also changed. As the Lead Pastor, I continued to function as the president, but the janitorial elements the I often did in the past faded away. We had other staff to handle some of the things I used to do.

Discover the Sermon Strategies Driving Growth in America’s Fastest Growing Churches

We’ve compiled a spreadsheet detailing the last 12 sermon series from the 100 fastest-growing churches in America.