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You May Need Some Loyal Mavericks! If you’re of a certain age, the movie Office Space was a painfully awkward story of a mind-numbing,...

How About a New Way to Measure Healthy Effectiveness? All healthy churches are characterized by four key traits: Integrity, Passion, Servanthood, and Imagination . While different churches will be stronger in some of these than others, all must be present and effectively balanced. Integrity means that systems and processes all function to achieve the church’s goals . A church with integrity has a clear sense of purpose and maintains systems that leverage resources toward f

Are You Assessing the Status Quo of Your Church or Organization? In the book Elemental Leaders, I identify four critical traits every...

Yeah, I know that’s a wide open question, but the New Testament says a lot about production. Of course, in their agrarian culture they...