Shareholders or Stakeholders?
When a church takes its stakeholders seriously – and not just its shareholders – the circle of ministry grows and becomes stronger. Real...
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“Do You Lead Yourself?” A Simple Method for Self-Leadership
The first three questions a leader should ask when facing a new situation are: What is really going on here? What should be going on...
Imaginative Risk Taking In Canadian Congregations
Our Flourishing Congregations Institute research team—based at Ambrose University in Calgary, Alberta—spent April to June 2016...
The Preaching Tag-Team Challenge
Do you long to see teens and young adults more solidly connected to your church? Are you a preacher or do you belong to a church that has...
The Adaptive Church: Lessons from Evolution
Whatever you may think of evolution and its place in a Christian understanding of creation, the science is clear that DNA does evolve and...
Clarifying Our Way Towards Flourishing
I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was about 14 years old when I experienced my first earthquake. It happened in Montreal, QC,...
How Must Pastors Flourish for their Congregations to Flourish?
One afternoon I sat in the dean’s office of a Canadian seminary. He excitedly said to me, “Roger, I have a new book for you to read....
“Can You Imagine A Church Where….”
I don’t know about you but sometimes I forget why I got into this in the first place. Sometimes I find I can lose my way and get focused...
Weak Leaders make Weak Churches?
“I don’t know why anyone would come to our church.” The pastor’s voice faltered as he tried to control his emotions. “The music is...
The Church in Exile
The experience of living in a Post-Christian culture is settling in as a reality for the contemporary North American church. The ongoing...
The Attributes of Strong Leadership & Tilling the Soil
Jim Collins writes that it’s not just good leadership that moves organizations or communities toward excellence, but “Level Five...
Transforming your Church
Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God (be...
Getting Children’s Ministry Out of the Basement
“I wouldn’t touch that job with a ten foot pole...” I said that. Not only once, but repeatedly when I was approached by Tenth Church to...
Ebb and Flow Decision Making*
Congregations within our Baptist family lean towards one of two poles while making decisions. Some elect leaders to give spiritual...
Your Church Needs More Charisma. And Maybe Less.
My research has been in the area of megachurch leadership, and I have heard two common remarks about the charismatic leader. From...
THE SAFEST PLACE IN THE WORLD
Some years ago a friend told me that he had asked his 16 year old daughter what she considered to be the safest place in the world. She...
“Thinking One Can”: Believing Your Congregation Can Flourish
Do you remember the children’s book The Little Engine that Could? The story was first published over 100 years ago in a curriculum for...
Flourishing. Really?
At the outset of this research project we delineated five traits from existing literature on flourishing congregations: clear...
The Church as a City of Refuge
This June, my wife and I visited the village of La Chambon sur Lignon, in the mountains of France near the borders of Switzerland and...
God Doesn't Always Say ‘Go’!
I’m a pretty active guy. Can’t sit still. Always on the go. So, I love preaching Genesis 12:1 and Matthew 28:19! These verses provide...
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