You must read to lead. Reading feeds. It opens our souls to a long line of counselors.

Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a...

Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.

Vision is capturing God’s assignment

Father, help me focus on my strengths and trust others to fill the gaps of my weaknesses”Every leader knows the skills in which they excel. They also are aware of those tasks that they maintain...

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.

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.

There is a long and well-documented tradition of wisdom in the Christian faith that any venture into leadership, whether by laity or clergy, is hazardous. it is necessary that there be leaders, but woe to...

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.

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...

Pastors enter congregations vocationally in order to embrace the totality of human life in Jesus’ name. We are convinced there is no detail, however unpromising, in people’s lives in which Christ may not work his...

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...

Put this in your ‘pastoral’ pipe and smoke it!!!”~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Somehow we American pastors, without really noticing what was happening, got our vocations redefined in the terms of American careerism. We quit thinking of the parish as a location for pastoral spirituality and started thinking...

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

I am not an ‘elder’, ‘deacon’, nor a ‘pastor’, and I do not have any ambitions to become one!”.~R. Alan Woods {2012]

Deception is nowhere more common than in religion. And the persons most easily and damningly deceived are the leaders. Those who deceive others are first themselves deceived, for not many, I think, begin with evil...

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

We don’t forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

My job is not to solve people’s problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came...

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.

Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words...