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 Hear Mike Bonem, author of Leading from the Second Chair. He has just released his next book, In Pursuit of Great AND Godly Leadership.Meet and talk to Mike! |
 Hear from Dan Reiland about his new book, Amplified Leadership. He writes The Pastor's Coach that goes out to scores of thousands.Meet and talk to Dan! |
New Articles on XPastor |
 Employee Manual of Village Bible Church of Aurora, Indian Creek and Sugar Grove IllinoisWelcome to Village Bible Church! We consider you to be a gift from God and look forward to working with you as a member of our ministry team. We appreciate you and the gifts and talents you bring to our ministries, and desire that you achieve your highest level of service for the Lord here at Village Bible Church. You can only do that by maintaining a close, personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and we want to foster that relationship. As an employee of the church, you represent our church and the Lord Jesus Christ in both your work life and private life. |
 Stacey Campbell on Don’t Read This Book!David asked me to write an ongoing series that explores books that have the potential for really pushing your buttons, disturbing your thinking, or challenging how you lead your church. If you don’t want that, then stop reading right now, lean back in your cozy chair and continue napping. I wouldn’t want to disturb your routine! However, the following book could give you some tools you need to continue growing into the XP that God designed you to be. |
 Dr. David Fletcher on Hiring: The In-Person InterviewThe sixth step of hiring is the in-person interview, where you have the candidate come to your offices for a full day of interviews. For this step, I have many highly precise goals. Since I have already talked to the candidate several times by phone, I like him or her. The candidate has terrific skills and a wonderful potential to do the job that we have carefully defined in the Opportunity Profile and Job Description. I think that this person is a winner, but now we have to see how he or she will do in the in-person interviews. |
Nathan Baxter on Let's Prune Some Ministries  Executive Pastors get excited about the opportunity to flex their catalyst muscles to launch ministries in the church. But, most tend to lose enthusiasm when it comes time to do some pruning. Ministries are living entities and experience lifecycles just like everything else. As Ecclesiastes reminds us, there is an appointed time for everything. |
 Kason Branch on Tips for the New XPOur Senior Pastors are standing on stage in front of the crowds in need of help, in order to accomplish the God-ordained task at hand. The XP can and should be the #1 support that the Pastor has. In order to be of great help to your Pastor, here are several tips that will help you be successful in your role right from the start! These tips come directly from God’s Word, Exodus 4:14-31, and are from one of the first XP’s—Moses’ brother Aaron, the Levite. |
 Bill Egner on Hiring For Right FitIf you’d like to make the most profound impact you can on your church’s overall health, performance and life-change ability, come to my workshop. I’m the Executive Pastor of a larger church in the South. A number of years ago I calculated my own hiring and retention rate on the back of an envelope and—to my dismay—discovered I was no better than about fifty percent two years down the road from a new hire. Frankly, I’d gone to a lot of trouble to “get it right,” but discovered on that day that I might just as well have flipped a coin between my top two candidates instead. |
  Steve Holt & Daniel Rolfe on The Color of LeadershipTwo Lead Pastors in One Church "The color of leadership is whatever color God is painting in your ministry world. We would recommend a shared leadership approach. Primary colors do not have the beauty, complexity and depth of a blended hue.We believe that the color of the shared leadership approach will make you a better person, a more effective leader, and enable you to reach the mission God has planted in your heart. The veins of our leadership at Mountain Springs definitely bleed purple." |
  Bob Feitl on A New NameTo stimulate growth, our leaders decided to clarify the church’s vision. A two-year strategic planning process followed, but we realized one key piece of our future provided a particular obstacle. We realized our name would become a barrier to the multi-site church concept. We can’t have a location-based identity! |
| Dr. David Fletcher on A New Wave of Church Leadership? “I wanted to get your thoughts on a new structure that I have heard a little bit about. The way I have heard it is that there is a 1a (Senior Pastor) and a 1b (Sr. Leader Operations). They are equal and both report directly and are accountable to the board, but neither have “authority” over one another. Is this right? Can you give me a short version of pros and cons and your thoughts? Who is doing this in the church world?” |
 Rob Cizek on 12 Leadership Insights From Inside Young Life CampIf you keep your eyes open, you will find excellent leadership going on all around you. This was definitely the case when Young Life invited me to be a guest at one of their camps for high school students. They granted me full access to their senior leadership, leader training sessions and all-camp activities. Here are some leadership insights we can all take away from one of the best outreach organizations anywhere. |
| Dr. Nathan Baxter on Tips for Strengthening the SP/XP Relationship Each time I work with a church leadership team, I schedule time for coaching the Senior Pastor and Executive Pastor together. This dynamic working relationship experiences significant wear and tear and needs to be inspected by an outsider who knows what to look for. Without some maintenance, the SP/XP relationship can experience a build up of unmet expectations that can prevent the leaders from experiencing their God-given potential. |
 Brad Leeper on Ten Issues for 2011Welcome to year three of the recession. The church has adapted to this restricted giving environment. The new normal has set in. The new normal may be short lived, however. Making the turn into 2011, churches could be faced with even greater financial challenges. The political landscape shakes. Inflation probably looms. Many church staff teams have had no salary increase for a couple of years. Increased medical costs plague church leadership teams wrestling with HR issues. Serving the poor and the hurting has stretched our available dollars. |
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Leadership Journal featured the XPastor website as a key resource for pastors toolkits in the fall, 2011 issue. The very positive half page article talked about our articles, case studies and the 5Macro Indicator. They also included a full-color photo of the home page. Click for a hi-rez version.
Knowing Yourself as a Church LeaderBased on the Executive Pastor Indicator, a spiritual inventory of over 2,600 church leaders, People Patterns has been developed. It gives insight into how people inside and outside the church think and relate to others. Sunlight and Shadow form our People Pattern. A new Indicator has been developed, along with a new website, 5macro.com. The book on People Patterns will be published in spring 2012. |
