Flashback Friday: Let Your Leaders Be Shepherds
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! It seems simple enough: when you give someone a leadership role, you...
Category: Staff Stuff
What Do You Stand For?
Much ink has been spilled on the subject of vision. Whether it’s our churches, our businesses, our our individual lives, we’ve all been challenged to articulate our vision, pursue our vision, protect our vision, and...
One Question Wednesday
Today I’ll sit down for the first time with my newly-hired administrative assistant. My former assistant Kristy is in the throes of full-time mommyhood (mommydom? mommyland?), and so a new chapter in the Summit’s Connections team...
Last Call for Confab
Not too long ago I announced plans for the fall version of the Connections Confab, a series of gatherings in August-November of this year designed to help you take your guest services / assimilation / covenant membership /...
Why I Attended the Connections Confab
We’re celebrating our first ever Guest Blogger Week here on the blog, and we’re kicking it off with my friend Steven Murray, Director of Communications at Houston’s First Baptist Church.He’s been in that role for nine...
Flashback Friday: Interview Your Volunteers
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! On this morning’s commute, I was tuned in to a station where...
Why You Should Take Advantage of the Connections Confab
This morning I’m gathering for the final time with a group of leaders who have become my friends. We’ve spent the last few months together looking at Connections Ministry from every possible facet. It has...
Hitting the ESRC Button
Several months ago I had a conversation with my friend Tony, the owner / operator of my favorite Chick-fil-A. (Full disclosure: Tony employs two of my sons, so I will only speak in positive, glowing terms...
Developing Leaders or Growing Disciples?
It’s hard to throw a rock into the interwebs these days without hitting a Christian who is talking about the latest book they’re reading on leadership. (Plus, I wouldn’t recommend throwing a rock into the interwebs, because...
Flashback Friday: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Churches seem to live in the culture of “yes”: “Yes, we’ll start...
