Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to developmentof leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you areshooting for if you are going to hit the target.

Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader’s resolve to fight the good fight.

Great leaders are teachable leaders.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

it takes six to stick” is proven true over and over again. I realized this in year three of our church plant. I think of the hundreds of people that came to our services that...

Missional leaders know that their church will only grow as large as its capacity to provide ongoing care through a network of small groups and ministry teams.

Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Leadership is simply a well applied energy burst. If a leader is going to let his energy get depleted through not important and urgent activities that distracts every ministry, then there will not be any...

Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who...

No man is exempted from the subtle deception of doctrinal drift – the man of God expects this temptation.

The mission that God has given us is a highly relational mission. Jesus said, “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you” John 20:21. Jesus came into this world, lived in obscurity for...

An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.

As the church get older and older it becomes harder to keep evangelism on the front burner because of all the competing issues that keeps pushing it back.

Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.

If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.

Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout forpotential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies tosee their possibilities.

There is nothing better than to have a highly motivated team of leaders focused on than reaching those far from Christ. And yet statistics and our experience reveal that evangelism entropy can creep deep inside...

Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God’s mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes...

One of the landmines that church planters never dodge is the landmineof leadership development. I will never forget the day when I realizedthat there are no such things as ‘ready-made leaders’.