Leadership

Strategic Planning: Of Limited Value

Last week I attended a session that described an assessment process for churches. Consultants go in and diagnose a church, and then provide some affirmations and prescriptions for further action. I never know

Swinging the pendulum away from vision

“Leadership as ‘vision’ has become another way of talking about exercising dominance and pushing other people around with your ideas…Vision has become a way of declaring dominance, of achieving alpha status and

Hierarchy and Christian leadership

D.A. Carson is in town this week for the Toronto Spiritual Life Convention. He’s also speaking at other events. Thanks, by the way, to Ken Davis for chairing the Convention and

Still looking for Jephthah

This post is going somewhere. Stick with me for a minute. Last week I spent some time in the strange story of Jephthah in the book of Judges (chapters 10-11). Jephthah is the

Keller on what you most need in a leader

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge