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Consistent is better than extraordinary

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Church Growth, Church leadership, church management, Leadership lessons, pastor leadership

February 10, 2015 at 1:20 pm.

If I asked you to tell me about your 2014, you’d likely tell me about the highlights — vacations you took, job changes, big things in the lives of your kids, and other things that stand out in your mind. But, that’s not what made the biggest difference in your life in 2014. Here’s what actually made the biggest difference: You ate. You slept. You drank water. That’s why you’re alive. That’s what sustained you and allowed all of the other things to happen. When any of those slipped, so did the rest of life. Try to enjoy your vacation without food, drink or sleep. Try to have breakthroughs at work or be a sunshiny presence at home. Eat, drink, sleep. Do those three things well and the rest of life happens. Fail to do them and life is worse — or life ends.

How to adjust to multiple services: 8 tips

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Church Growth, church planting, Church Strategy, Family Life, LEADERSHIP, missions, New Vintage Church, Personal, Preaching

December 3, 2014 at 11:33 am.

How can preachers make adjustments that better prepare them for the transition from one to multiple services? I’ve been a part of such a transition numerous times, and made the transition from two to three, and three to four. I’ve also had to make adjustments for seasons that included preaching live in multiple venues and multiple locations on Sundays. Each season required me to make adjustments — physically, personally and vocationally. While my experience is that the jump from two to three services requires the most adjusting — the jump from one to two services also requires substantial adjustments.
Here are some things I’ve found.

A step-by-step church staff review guide

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Church Finance, Church Staffing, Church Strategy, generosity, LEADERSHIP, Leadership Vault, New Vintage Church, Productivity, stewardship

November 17, 2014 at 9:46 am.

Staff reviews are thought by some to be intrinsically miserable and somewhat useless. They really don’t have to be. They can actually be a time staff looks forward to.

Execution > Vision

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Church leadership, church management, Leadership lessons, pastor leadership

September 16, 2014 at 5:56 pm.

By Tim Spivey, lead planter of New Vintage Church (San Diego) Truth bomb: More churches struggle because they lack execution than because they lack vision or fresh ideas. In fact, the lack of vision and fresh ideas can often be a symptom of chronic lack of execution of ideas and vision. Let me explain with […]

5 common preaching mistakes & how to fix them

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Leadership lessons, preaching lessons, preaching tips, sermon delivery, sermon tips

August 12, 2014 at 4:52 pm.

Preaching week after week, year after year, is extremely challenging. Doing so with any degree of consistency and excellence is even more challenging. No preacher is at his or her best every weekend. Personal matters and church issues can hurt preparation time. Sometimes, the well just seems dry. There’s no freshness, no zip on the […]

Can churches grow in the summer?

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Church Growth

July 7, 2014 at 1:25 pm.

Of course they can. In fact, churches should grow in the summer. However, they rarely do for one simple reason: Their leaders let down too much. Some churches I know do away with children’s ministry for the summer to give their teachers a rest. Others quit small groups or put virtually nothing on the church […]

The Monday Rule

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Church leadership, church staff, Dispute resolution, Monday Rule, Staff management

May 21, 2014 at 11:24 am.

The simple implementation of the Monday rule can change the climate of your church for the better significantly. NVC has worked, unofficially, at creating a “Monday Rule” culture. We’ve never stated it officially, but is understood by most of our people nonetheless because we have encouraged it from our beginning. Staff abides by it, as […]

Avoid these 5 staffing mistakes

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Church hiring, Church HR, church staff, Hiring mistakes, Hiring strategies, Hiring well, Staff management, staffing mistakes

April 14, 2014 at 12:48 pm.

“The single most important thing great companies did that good companies didn’t was make superb people decisions.” That was from Jim Collins at the Catalyst West conference last year. Collins is one of my favorites — OK, my favorite — author on leadership from a business perspective. The research his team has done over the […]

Learning from the greatest coaches

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Church leadership, Leadership lessons, Leadership styles, Pastor coaching, pastor leadership

March 27, 2014 at 12:28 pm.

One place few pastors look for leadership wisdom is in the realm of coaching. I love reading books by coaches. Books by John Wooden, Pete Carroll, Phil Jackson, Joe Torre and others are a part of my library. Some of the best leadership lesson I’ve gleaned over the years have been from coaches — my […]

Do you believe in those you’re leading?

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Church leadership, Leadership lessons, Leading the flock, pastor leadership

March 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm.

People are led best by people who believe in them.