Shepherd vs. CEO Debate Continues at Strange Baptist Fire

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Leading Change in the Local Church

One of the greatest leadership issues facing pastors today is leading change initiatives in the local church.  It has been said the that seven last words of the church are, “We’ve never done it that way before.”  The way a pastor approaches change can make or break his ministry.  I want to make a couple of [...]

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“Death By Meeting”

This was an amazing book, I read it in about three sessions. The topic is meetings and the author brilliantly crafts his thoughts into a fictional account of a corporation's struggle to have effective meetings. The material gives a complete framework for keeping meetings meaningful, passionate and effective. Anyway – I wanted to highlight this [...]

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The One Who Owns the Terms, Owns the Argument: The Definition of Leadership

If a term such as leadership is not well defined, it really has no meaning at all.  Did you realize that word leadership did not appear in any dictionaries until the early 1900's?  When the word appeared, it was defined as the office and prestige of a leader.  The definition only had positional connotations.  Over [...]

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Is Leadership in the Church Spiritual or Simply Business?

Andy Stanley recently gave an interview to Leadership Journal.  The interview, published in the Spring 2006 issue, addressed Stanly's view of leadership in the church.  Stanley is a great leader and an inspiration to young pastors.  But, I was disturbed by some of his comments in this interview.  Stanley was asked, "What is distinctly spiritual [...]

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New Blog

Thanks for visiting my new blog, Total Leadership.  You may be familiar with Total Truth, my blog on issues in the Southern Baptist Convention.  I will still be posting there about once a week, but for now I am going to focus most of my attention here. 
I feel that many of the issues in SBC [...]

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