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leadership

Building A Team Part 3: Encourage Cohesive Relationships

February 15, 2009

Church work is hard. With so many battles being fought in the spiritual realms, we have to have each others’ backs. Leaders are struck down in battle all the time, and it can be discouraging. From a senior pastor, a volunteer youth leader, a spouse, or a church janitor – we all have a Biblical mandate to build each other up.

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Building a Team Part 2: Spiritual Disciplines and Common Goals

February 3, 2009

A healthy, Christ-honoring environment should be the number one priority. This happens by establishing a healthy hiring process, consistently communicating the importance of passionate and growing relationship with God, and ensuring the people you do hire are completely committed to the calling God has placed in front of your church.

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If Steve Jobs ran your church

December 12, 2008

What if Steve Jobs was in charge of your church?
What do you think it would be like to work there? How would it be different from how it is?
Would it be a success?
Do you think it would translate well?

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MinistryCom

August 21, 2008

It’s coming and you can’t stop it.
A conference that might change your perspectives or leave you feeling like you wasted some of God’s cash. We might be there too, which undoubtedly will well worth the trip, given Chad Maag’s recent induction into “the family”.

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We are back, Rob Bell might be on the way out

August 18, 2008

Well, it’s been a sweet time of freaking craziness here at the studio. Josh moved from California to Oregon and is now working at New Hope Community Church as the Director of Communications and Weekend Experience. Chad has also been somewhat busy but in other, cooler ways. More to come.
In regard to the elephant in [...]

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Stop Marketing and Start Loving

June 2, 2008

We as the Church have started to peddle Jesus as a product. A trinket that we can put in our pocket and use when we need fresh breath. A bracelet for when we do not want the opposite sex to hit on us. The American Christ has become product that the Church uses to ensnare its community into coming to that specific place of worship.

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