Without a doubt, our what and how has changed and will continue to change. How we greet guests, what we do about communion, and how we move large groups of people into and out of worship are all necessary topics of discussion. But those what and how conversations...
If you’re a paid staff member or a volunteer leader, there will come a point where you feel like you’ve “made it” in terms of team objectives: you’ve reached that goal. You’ve transformed that...
You may be playing on the wrong team and not even realize it. It’s not that you’re a bad player. But the right team is better than your current team, because the team you’re...
Right you were, Aaron Burr, sir. There is indeed a room where it happens. There’s a place where the game is played and the sausage gets made. There is a table where decisions are...
In a recent post we discussed Patrick Lencioni’s challenge that clarity is more important than accuracy. Since that post went live, I heard a complementary quote from Daniel Simmons, a member of our Executive...
Recently I talked about pandemic silos: those 2020-era phenomena that are completely natural, absolutely understandable, and potentially unavoidable. (They also must be destroyed.) As our staff team makes the rapid shift to “unpack our...
If we could all have a moment of collective honesty, we might admit that these days, we feel like a herd of two-legged turtles with vertigo stampeding through chunky peanut butter. Maybe you don’t...
We are not living in the most relaxing of times. I write this sentence in the middle of a global pandemic, but truth be told, you’ll likely be able to apply it at any...
We are in the middle of unprecedented times. And maybe the use of the word middle is a bit premature. As the world reacts to COVID-19, we really don’t know the kind of timeline...
There are jobs that we never outgrow. There are duties that we can never completely hand off to another. There are responsibilities that will remain our responsibility no matter how high we climb up...
