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The Cortisol, Stress Flooded Church: 9 Signs and 8 Antidotes

2 Comments / Body Care, Church Growth, Leadership, Life Balance, Ministry, Neuroleadership / By Charles Stone

Cortisol, the stress hormone, is often associated with negative effects that prolonged stress puts on our bodies. Those effects include weight gain, anxiety, heart disease, depressed immune system, digestive problems, sleep impairment, and even effects on memory. But could churches be negatively affected by cortisol as well? That is, if the leaders and culture of […]

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Does Your Leadership Emotional Force Field Attract or Push Others Away?

4 Comments / Church Growth, Leadership, Life Balance, Ministry, Neuroleadership / By Charles Stone

In Miss Pickens’s third-grade class at Glen Oaks Elementary School in Fairfield, Alabama, I performed the first of many science experiments. As a full-fledged geek, I looked forward to those experiment days. One day Miss Pickens gave each of us a small, rectangular magnet about the size of a stick of gum, a sheet of

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8 Reasons Why Church Change is so Difficult

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

Wise leaders and pastors understand that lasting change requires individuals to change first before an organization will change. Your change won’t last or will disrupt your church unless those in your teams personally embrace the change first, at least at some level. So it behooves us to first understand why most people initially resist change. Brain

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3 Lessons on Change from Nehemiah

Leave a Comment / Church Growth, Ministry / By Charles Stone

If your church is not changing, it’s not growing. I heard someone once say, “Don’t be afraid of change. You might lose something good, but you’ll gain something better.” However, bringing change in a church is often difficult. One of the greatest leaders of all time, Nehemiah, effected change in the setting that surrounded the

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5 Telling Questions to Ask at Your Next Staff Meeting

2 Comments / change managemenet, Church Growth, Church Staff, Leadership, Pastors, planning / By Charles Stone

Some time ago I read Andy Stanley’s book Deep and Wide. It’s a must-read for every ministry leader. In one chapter he poses 5 questions that are deeply telling about a church’s direction and impact. At your next staff meeting, pose these five questions and give your staff the freedom to answer honestly. Better yet, email them

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The Cortisol, Stress Flooded Church: 9 Signs and 8 Antidotes

Does Your Leadership Emotional Force Field Attract or Push Others Away?

8 Reasons Why Church Change is so Difficult

3 Lessons on Change from Nehemiah

5 Telling Questions to Ask at Your Next Staff Meeting

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