Unless you overlay accountability onto the micro-shift we described in Starbucks, Micro-Shifts and Discipleship, all you have is a solid lesson in a discipleship class. Our world desperately needs disciples who reflect Jesus.

There is a lot to be learned about discipleship from a micro-shift made twenty-five years ago by Starbucks.

Leading is hard work. And at times, discouraging. In fact, if you’ve never felt discouraged you probably haven’t worked on anything worthwhile. Feeling discouraged is inevitable. Staying discouraged is avoidable.

Board meetings, staff meetings, budget meetings, strategy meetings, planning meetings, and meetings about meetings. Can you hear the sound of air being sucked out of the room? Why are meetings SO bad?

Vitalization is more than getting a definition of success right. It’s doing what Jesus calls his followers to become - faithful and fruitful.

A pandemic and sociological upheaval leave pastors facing increased threats to their relationships and longevity. Some of longest serving pastors of many of the most vibrant churches in Canada, share 12 qualities of resilient leaders.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is posing unprecedented challenges to church leadership across the world. How adaptive changes have responded to pandemic challenges.

Imagine if 75% of your church were actively engaged in the discipling of pre-Christians and Christians? What a day that would be.

Using the past as a springboard into the future.

The average person has no idea what next steps to take to connect into this congregation and what the destination (being a part of the church) might look like. It’s up to us as leaders to create clear and obvious next steps for them.

I’ve asked a similar question to pastors who have seen their ministries and churches grow over the years … “what is one reason you can think of as to why your ministry grew?” Their answer shocked me.

If you want to your organization to grow, you have to grow as a leader. The kicker is that the law of the lid eventually applies to every leader. Every leader will become the lid to their own organization.

We don’t want to create any barriers for people to come to Jesus Christ and we want to do our best to be a church that is in the community and for the community.

The task of gearing up onsite services while maintaining high quality online experiences, in a season when most leaders and churches gear down, makes the summer of 2020 one of the most stress-filled times of the century for pastors.

What better way to spend the rare, rainy summer day than with one of the following five page turners. Read at the risk of a greater love for God and neighbour.