The executive pastor role is considered vital for medium to large size churches. Yet the core functionality of executive pastors is often misunderstood or overlooked. With an assist from xpastor.org, and taking into account over 12 years of serving as an executive pastor with three different churches, Mike Gafa explains how executive pastors perform five essential functions. Watch the video …
Evangelism: Challenge and Opportunity – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 9: Episode 7
On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Mike Gafa presents both a challenge and opportunity related to evangelism. How we respond has tremendous significance and Kingdom impact. What the video to learn more!
New Whiteboard Season and Some Exciting Luminex Updates – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 9: Episode 1
Luminex is excited about its new season of Whiteboard Wednesday Videos, which will run for the next 13 weeks! We share all the details in today’s video — along with a “save the date” for an exciting event on March 7, AND registration information for the upcoming “Leading in Uncharted Territory” workshop with Tod Bolsinger! Leadership Workshop Details: December 7, …
Three Kinds of Results – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 8: Episode 16
On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Mike Gafa gives insight on three kids of results churches need to be tuned into, and that are vital in different yet intertwined ways. Adapted from Innovating Discipleship by Will Mancini, today’s content can be a game-changer for pastors and church leaders.
Dine & Drive! Free Church Planter Event
Are you a church planter, or a future church planter? Are you a church leader with a desire to learn more about how to develop your leaders to become church planters? Are you planning to be at Exponential Chicago on November 5-6? If you answered “yes” to the questions above, please join us in Chicago for the first annual Luminex Dine & …
Leadership and the Art of Dancing – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 8: Episode 4
What does dancing have to do with leadership? Quite a lot, actually! On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Melanie Kilgore and Andy Bossardet talk about how leadership and dancing are much more intertwined than we might think they are. Watch and learn …
Facing our Blind Spots – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 7: Episode 11
Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, we all have blind spots. Simply put, we don’t know what we can’t see. On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Mike Gafa guides us through how to face our blind spots, and how to proactively maintain healthy spiritual peripheral vision.
Covenantal Leadership Through a Leadership Covenant
The following is taken from Faith-Based: A Biblical, Practical Guide to Strategic Planning in the Church, by Michael Gafa: I have found that having a well discerned, easy to understand Leadership Covenant is a great way to uphold core values and biblical truths in tandem with promoting cohesion and unity in Christ. The Leadership Covenant example that follows is one I have …
Multi-Tiered Budgeting – Whiteboard Wednesday Season 7: Episode 4
On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Mike Gafa talks about multi-tiered budgeting, which takes into account the dual realities that while God meets our needs according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus, God can also do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine. Check out the video to learn more!
Is it I, Lord?
“When it was evening, he reclined at the table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, ‘Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.’ And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, ‘Is it I, Lord?’” (Matthew 26:20-22) Jesus’ disciples got so many things wrong! Consider… after Jesus …