On this week’s podcast, John Messer, explains the ins and outs of Robert Kelly’s Follower Matrix and how that relates to discipleship and leadership development in your churches.
Growth Through Grafting
In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus talks about sowing the Word of God. How can church leaders best do this in the context of their congregation? On this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Mike Gafa, Luminex Coordinator, talks with us about something called growth through grafting. This idea is based on Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. In this parable, the seed …
Eight Trends in Church Planting, Part Two
In this week’s post we continue with Doug McClintic, Church Multiplication Catalyst for Luminex, as he discusses the last four of eight trends that he is observing in church planting: Trend 5: The marriage of the church as both congregation and missional community. Over the past 20 years pitting the gathered congregation of believers who meet in a particular place, …
Three Needs that Every Church Can Meet
Whether your church is big or small, old or new, there are three needs that every person longs for and every church can meet. On this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday Doug McClintic, Church Multiplication catalyst for Luminex, delves into these three needs – transcendence, significance, and community – and how every church can meet them. The first, transcendence, is the need …
Eight Trends in Church Planting, Part One
In this week’s post Doug McClintic, Church Multiplication Catalyst for Luminex, discusses the first four of eight trends that he is observing in church planting: Trend 1: Continued tragic mistakes on the part of sending agencies and churches. Church planting has come a long way in the past 20 years but as new churches, leaders and agencies come online in …
Frames of Leadership
Leaders come in all shapes and sizes, all with different competencies and emphases. What type of leader are you? And how can you develop competencies in other ways of leadership? On this Whiteboard Wednesday, Jill VerSteeg, Director of Transformational Engagement, delves into three different frames of leadership based on Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal’s book, Reframing Organizations. Each of these …
Disillusioned Leaders
Dis-illusioned Leaders Just as leadership overflows with opportunities and blessings, it also overflows with peril to leaders’ hearts and souls. Excessive demands, superhuman expectations, and an orientation to serve others can combine to make a dangerously toxic sludge that overflows into our souls, poisons our hearts, and sours our minds. Serving others becomes a chore and the positive, hope-filled labor …
Persevering to Persevere
It was another lesson learned the hard way. During my freshman year at college my dorm was challenged by another dorm to a track meet. My assignment? To participate in a relay by running one lap around the track. Even though I had not run track in high school I figured I was in shape and one lap wasn’t too …
Aligning Church Ministries with Mission and Vision
Once you have a solid understanding on your church’s mission and vision, it’s time to make sure your ministries and departments are actually working together to help you realize that vision. On this Whiteboard Wednesday, Mike Gafa provides us with a quick tool to do just that – it’s called the “Keep-Alter-Stop-Add” tool. First, consider one of your existing ministries. …
Praying Through
Several years ago, the church I was a part of held a multi-day prayer summit with a guest facilitator named Gerhard Du Toit. One phrase that Gerhard used repeatedly throughout the summit was, “Praying through.” In general, what Gerhard was conveying is that the more deeply we live for the cause of Christ, the more we can expect resistance – …