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5 Reasons Why Every Church Needs a Staff-Board Conflict Resolution Strategy

1 Comment / change managemenet, communication, Pastors / By Charles Stone

The board meetings have begun to sour. Increasingly the pastor and his board have heated conversations about the church’s direction. The conflict has bled into every meeting for months. Emotions are running high. Conflict reaches a flash point. There is no written plan on how to deal with it. What happens? The board either sends the […]

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3 Ways to Defeat Leadership Discouragement

1 Comment / change managemenet, Leadership, Life Balance, Pastors / By Charles Stone

Discouragement comes with the territory for ministry leaders. Unmet goals, putting out fires, staff issues, displeasing people, and general tiredness all contribute to discouragement. When it weighs us down, how can we dig out? The life of the prophet Elijah gives us hope. I Kings 18-19 tells the story of his amazing confrontation with the prophets

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5 Ways to Make Brainstorming More Creative

Leave a Comment / change managemenet, Church Growth, Church Staff, Leadership, planning / By Charles Stone

Brainstorming sessions have become standard fare for ministry teams that seek solutions to problems. The two key rules are to generate as many ideas as possible and don’t criticize the ideas. These concepts came from Alex Osborne’s book Your Creative Power published in 1948. Since then it’s been common practice to avoid criticizing the ideas in

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5 Signs that you Need to Quit Something

Leave a Comment / change managemenet, Church Growth, Leadership, Life Balance, Preaching / By Charles Stone

Quitters never win and winners never quit was drilled into my mind at an early age. I believed it. I practiced it. I lived it. I only quit one thing in my life before age 18, my high school football team. I quit because I sat on the bench 99.976% of the time. Since, then, however,

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Are you a Bogie or a Birdie Leader?

1 Comment / change managemenet, Church Growth, Leadership, Ministry, Spiritual Growth / By Charles Stone

I must confess upfront that I don’t play golf. I’ve only played it once, unless you count dinosaur carpet golf our family often played while on vacation. However, several years ago my father-in-law tried to interest me in the sport. He gave me a set of nice used clubs. But, I never used them. Three

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5 Reasons Why Every Church Needs a Staff-Board Conflict Resolution Strategy

3 Ways to Defeat Leadership Discouragement

5 Ways to Make Brainstorming More Creative

5 Signs that you Need to Quit Something

Are you a Bogie or a Birdie Leader?

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