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Four Ways You Can Be a Godly Leader in a Sports-Crazed World
I love sports. I am an over-the-top Chicago Cubs fan. My license plate says Cubzwin. My three children all played collegiate sports. My wife and I played collegiate sports. I’m in four fantasy football leagues---that’s [...]
Healthy Venting as a Staff
We’ve all inappropriately handled our emotions at work. We’ve either stuffed our emotions when we should have shared them or we’ve spewed emotions when we should have stayed silent. Venting in the workplace is [...]
Resisters Are Not the Enemy
This article is adapted from Mike Bonem’s forthcoming book, The Art of Leading Change: Ten Perspectives on the Messiness of Ministry. In many arenas of life, we neatly divide people into two groups: friends [...]
3 Job Description Misses that Might Cost You
How accurate are your employees’ job descriptions? Most places I’ve worked might present a job description during the application process, but by the time the employee is one year in, their responsibilities have morphed [...]
Free: The Church Financial Field Guide from CapinCrouse
In today’s challenging environment of rapid change and transformation, church leaders must embrace new skills, ideas, and approaches to succeed. In The Church Financial Field Guide, a new e-book from CapinCrouse, Partners Stan Reiff [...]
Working Remotely Challenges
Apple’s director of machine learning (Artificial Intelligence), Ian Goodfellow, resigned from his role just four years after joining Apple and returned to Google. Why? In his email to his team he said the change [...]
Roles, Responsibilities and Decision Making in 2022
for a Staff Led and Elder Oversight Church Polity This article is from 2022 and expands on Bob's article from 2007 which can be read here. At some point in the life of many churches the [...]
Are Furry Coworkers in Your Future?
Normal working conditions changed considerably in the past few years. I’m not sure we would have envisioned executives in pajamas from the waist down with a cat in their lap and kids running through the [...]
SBC Churches and Child Sexual Abuse: Reasons for Encouragement and Optimism
Many Baptist leaders and congregation members were discouraged after the release of the Guidepost Solutions Report on May 25th, investigating actions of the SBC Executive Committee related to sexual abuse. The Report focused on [...]
Benevolence Support for a Woman with 4 Children
Hey Fletch ... I am an elder in a church plant. Sadly, a couple who joined our church at the beginning is now in divorce proceedings. The wife and four children attend church faithfully. [...]
Taxable Sabbatical Expenses
Hey Fletch ... Our elders developed a sabbatical policy that provides our pastors with benefits that includes normal salary and benefits. There is additional pay for activities like meeting with mentors, studying, developing relationships [...]
How Marketing Strategies Play a Role in Creating Disciples: Using the Member Lifecycle
Making disciples is at the heart of every church. However, gone are the days when it was possible or practical for pastors to greet all members at the church door and know what’s going [...]
Forgetting the Sermon by Wednesday
The main segment in most worship services is the sermon. It receives the most time and is pivotal for teaching biblical truth. Yet, almost everyone listening to the sermon forgets it by Wednesday. Church [...]
He Gets Us
He Gets Us is a campaign designed to create cultural change in the way people think about Jesus and his relevance in our lives. What is “He Gets Us” all about? Our mission is [...]
Free Easter App for Your Church
Updated April 4, 2022 with a QR code. Gregory Love and Kimberlee Norris have produced a free resource for Easter. Greg says, the app goes viral every year around this time as churches use [...]
Marijuana, Edibles and CBD Policy
Hey Fletch … Should our church have a policy on the use of cannabidiol or CBD oil? Our Lead Pastor is concerned about this. This stuff is legal in our state. We have a [...]
Facilities Use Fire Drill: Sexual Abuse Risk and Third-Party Use of Facilities
Boy Scouts Settlement Fund Exceeds $2.6 Billion Not every organization has chartered or hosted a Boy Scout Troop, but every organization with physical facilities must learn the lessons stemming from this massive child sexual [...]
Disposing of Church Assets: A computer, a cell phone and a 1932 Rolls Royce
Hey Fletch … We don’t have a policy for selling church property. Some staff have given furniture away, sold equipment, or sold things to family members. Do you have a recommendation on the sale [...]
Church Membership and Discipline
A church leader read XPastor’s article, Why Church Membership, and submitted the following thoughts on the topic. The individual suggests expanding the topic to include church discipline and gives examples from their church. This [...]
How Not to Take on Undelegated Responsibility
Some personality types, like mine, simply love taking on a challenge and taking on responsibility. It comes naturally, especially for leaders. Taking responsibility is a good virtue and it is celebrated in every sphere [...]
Burnout in Your Church: Recognize the Signs
As someone who has been burned out, I know it’s not a question of if your staff is experiencing burnout, but how many of them are already burnt out. Most people have no clue. [...]
River Valley Church Receives $400,000 in Crypto Donations
Creating Catalysts of Generosity with Cryptocurrency An interview with Clynt Reddy, Executive Director of Operations for River Valley Church and Engiven. Each year River Valley hosts an annual event called Kingdom Builders, where they [...]
A Rule of Life for Executive Pastors in 2022
As I write this, it’s less than three weeks until 2022. Budgets are, by and large, complete. The staff Christmas party is right around the corner. Staff members are wrapping up the last of [...]
New California Sexual Abuse Prevention Legislation—Requirements for ‘Youth Service Organizations’
Attorneys Greg Love and Kimberlee Norris, of MinistrySafe, address issues in a new California law. Elements of this law may be soon in your state. To whom does the new law apply? What action [...]