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Avoiding Ministry Failure: 5 Questions to Ask when you do a Ministry Pre-mortem

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

Ministry initiatives in the church often fail. A simple planning tool called the pre-mortem, however, can minimize ministry failure. In a recent post I suggested 7 good reasons to conduct the pre-mortem, a tool credited to Dr. Gary Klein. A pre-mortem is an exercise that assumes your plan spectacularly fails and considers beforehand what might go wrong. […]

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7 Benefits of an Often Overlooked Planning Tool: the Pre-mortem

3 Comments / Church Growth, Leadership, Ministry, Uncategorized / By Charles Stone

Jesus recognized the role good planning plays in life and ministry. He said, Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? (Luke 14.28) Unfortunately, lack of planning often torpedoes otherwise good ministry ideas. Scientist Gary Klein, author of

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6 Tips to Keeping New Year’s Resolutions

1 Comment / change managemenet, Church Growth, Life Balance, spiritual disciplines, Spiritual Growth / By Charles Stone

Every January millions make new year’s resolutions. The top ones include lose weight, quit smoking, use money more wisely, and spend more time with friends. Unfortunately, 50% never keep their resolution for more than 6 months and only 10% make it through the year. So, should we avoid setting resolutions (goals) for the new year because

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5 Brain Biases that Limit Leaders

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

Leaders would like to think that they lead in unbiased ways. However that’s easier said than done. The fall of man affected every part of who we are, including our thinking. Brain biases abound. A Google search reveals almost 200 different biases. Among those 200, what brain biases poses the greatest threat to effective leadership? In this post I

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Tithing: a Simple and Effective Way to Encourage People to Tithe

1 Comment / Church Growth, Stewardship / By Charles Stone

I believe every pastor should help his church grow in generosity. One tool I’ve used for many years is called a “Tithe Demonstration Day.” It’s essentially setting aside one Sunday each year, usually in a stewardship sermon series, when we challenge every person in the church to tithe, give 10% of one week’s income. It’s

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Avoiding Ministry Failure: 5 Questions to Ask when you do a Ministry Pre-mortem

7 Benefits of an Often Overlooked Planning Tool: the Pre-mortem

6 Tips to Keeping New Year’s Resolutions

5 Brain Biases that Limit Leaders

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