Don’t Fall for the Pastoral Fallacy
The Pastoral Fallacy pops up at pastors’ conferences, in books about the church and in some classes and seminars. The Fallacy also (unfortunately & too often) malforms the backdrop we use to view the church. Not only does it not work, but the Bible does not...
Why People Promote the Pastoral Fallacy
Let’s call him Bill (because that was his name). An incredible craftsman, I met him when he supervised a few college students (including me) while we worked our way through college doing dorm maintenance (code words for “fixing stuff”). One of those students...
What’s Your Leadership Quotient?
Check Yourself in the Three Key Areas Every Pastor Needs According to the Bible, each pastor needs to possess three sets of skills to lead well. These three areas of the pastor’s acumen and ability determine how well the church will do. The three sets of skills...
Four Ways to Increase Your Wisdom
Wisdom makes everything better. We overcome challenges with less hassle, accomplish more and enjoy richer relationships with it. Subsequently, without wisdom, we make bad decisions that cost us stress, time, money, relationships and wasted opportunities. For me, I...
Three Tools that Will Increase Your Interpersonal Capacity
Great leadership requires developing three levels (or sets) of skills: Personal, Interpersonal and Organizational. Great leadership requires three sets of skills, which build on each other. In our last post, we addressed the personal level. Today, we...
God has blessed me to learn, formally and informally, from some incredible leaders, and to use that experience to grow organizations by helping leaders grow. I am currently the CEO of stowemission.org and the director of metrocolumbus.org, a network of 128 churches, primarily in central Ohio.