This week I’m posting a series of blogs about how pastors respond when people in their church compare their leadership and preaching to others or when they brag about another church by insinuating that we don’t measure up Yesterday I posted 5 ways we should respond when we feel compared to others more ‘successful’ than […]

Yesterday I began a series of blogs to unpack this issue: what should pastors do when people in our churches compare us to other more “successful” pastors. In that blog, I shared an email a pastor received from someone in his church who boasted about another super-successful pastor and his church. He was tempted to

I’ve hired several pastors and admin staff in my ministry of 30 plus years and I’ve made some great choices and some not so great ones as well. These mistakes have contributed to my poor selections. Not pursuing the yellow flags that nagged at the back of my mind. Refusing to REALLY ask other key