Growing as an XP

Tuesday, July 3, 2018 Hey Fletch … I am relatively new as an XP. First, your website and the XP-Seminar have been tremendous resources. Second, I want to hang out with an XP in my [...]

Monday, June 25, 2018 Hey Fletch … Compared to five years ago, what skills, knowledge, leadership or sensitivity is needed to lead as XP in a growing evangelical church? DRF—I’ve mentioned before that recently Matt [...]

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Hey Fletch … I see on your site that you provide coaching. I am interested in the process and the price. I am currently in a split role of Children [...]

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Hey Prof … I’ve been learning that there are a number of different ways churches use their executive pastors, more than I realized! The idea about the two XPs in [...]

Friday, June 8, 2018 Hey Fletch … I filled out the XP indicator. When do I get the results? DRF—I love eager beavers! You are avid and want to learn about your strengths. You [...]

Monday, May 14, 2018 Hey Fletch … please I want to know more about the school. Thank you. DRF—I love hearing from folks overseas. We don’t offer a school so much as courses for [...]

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Hey Fletch … I’ve been a pastor for 15 years and I’m mentally dying. I’m at a place of intellectual stagnation. What can I do to get out of my [...]

Friday, March 30, 2018 Hey Fletch … I've heard you might provide coaching for new XPs. If that's the case, how do you structure the coaching experience and how much does it cost? DRF—Great [...]

Monday, March 26, 2018 Hey Fletch … I'm trying to research churches that have a double XP organization. We are thinking of an XP of Operations and an XP of Ministries. We currently have [...]

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Hey Fletch … one of the challenges that I face as Executive Pastor is that everyone is pitching things to me. I feel like I’m “Dr. No.” There are tons [...]

February 17, 2018 Hey David … We have grown from 300 to 2,000 in less than 5 years. Our original Executive Pastor job description was for a smaller church. What do you have as [...]

Recently, after eventful days at the church office, David and I have compared those events to the movie, Grand Hotel. Grand Hotel, which came out in 1932, is the movie in which Greta Garbo famously [...]

Let’s face it—life happens. We all get off track at one time or another. And it’s always more difficult to get back on track the second time. Third time. Fourth time. Several weeks ago, a [...]

Peter Drucker’s goal in The Effective Executive seems so simple; as he states in the preface, “The subject of this book is managing oneself for effectiveness.” It does not take long to realize, however, [...]

Leaders can effectively communicate their mission with people from all walks of life by using several different methods of communication. One of the best ways I’ve found for communicating your message is through networking and [...]

Matt Steen and Todd Rhodes are putting together an interesting concept. In XP Ministry Briefing, they summarizing 200+ articles that you need to know as a church leader from the past thirty days. It [...]

I’ve been somebody’s “Number Two Guy” for the majority of my career. I’ve been someone’s “Commander Riker” to their “Captain Picard” for almost twenty years. And, yes, I realize I’m dating myself with this analogy—Star [...]

The following is a dissertation written by an Executive Pastor. To aid in making the information more readable on the web, the footnotes have been removed. To view footnotes, charts, Appendices and the Reference List, [...]

Executive Pastor David Troublefield read a comment on XPastor that said, "And if you want to forget all your troubles, eat a cherry popsicle while running through the sprinklers barefoot!" So David put on his [...]

Many capable, idealistic, servant-minded people find themselves in "second chair" management and leadership roles within Christian organizations and churches across the country. For many, this is a positive, fulfilling experience; for others, it is [...]

If you ask most Executive Pastors to show you their radars, they'd look a lot like FAA snapshots charting planes in flight across the country. While I know you're as stressed as a control tower [...]

One of the greatest privileges of serving as an Executive Pastor is the opportunity we have to come alongside men and women and help them develop in their leadership. The first few months of the [...]