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Fasting From Church Stuff

For years I tried to learn from and be like other ministers. I listened to messages, attended conferences, and devoured every Christian book I could. Each time I met a new leader, I tried to become more like them. A few years ago though, God led me to do something very different. (I'm not neces...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Creating an Empowering Culture, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Last month, we talked about how important both clarity and trust are in creating an empowering culture. In today’s episode, we’ll build on that idea a little more. What we value determines what we do. The number one force that shapes...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How to Develop Leaders

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Last month, we talked about four dark sides developers can tend toward that keep them from leading effectively. Today, we’re going to talk about developing leaders. Developing people doesn’t happen accidentally. Developing leaders mu...

Be Unreasonable

I bet you have heard this many times: “be reasonable.” Truthfully, under many circumstances, “be reasonable” is sound advice—but not always. As Christian leaders, there are some times to be unreasonable. • When you pray, you might ask God to do something most would consider impossible or unrea...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Principles of Higher Hiring

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! One of the most important skills you can develop as a leader is selecting, developing, and empowering the right people. The potential of your organization rests on the strengths of its people. You can have the best product, best strategy,...

Leadership Podcast: Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In many organizations, urgency is not the default mode—complacency is. In the last episode, Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 1, Craig discussed two steps to declare war on complacency in your culture: embody healthy skepticism, and attack...

5 Ways the Best Leaders Think Master Class

5 WAYS THE BEST LEADERS THINK: MASTER CLASS WORKBOOK YOU’RE A PASTOR. YOUR MIND MATTERS. Find the five master class teaching videos from Craig Groeschel on YouTube. To walk through this workbook with your team, download the PDF. Our minds are elastic. Over...

Spirit-Led Instead of Model-Driven

Many pastors operate on certain models. There is the “seeker-sensitive” model, the “purpose-driven” model, the “emergent church” model, the “contemporary church” model, the “spirit-filled classic charismatic” model, the “small group” model, the “multi-site” model, the “missional inner-city” mod...

Micro Churches, Mega Vision

I love to challenge myself to think about things from a different perspective, especially things I’ve taken at face value. For years, when people referenced our church, Life.Church, as a megachurch, I never gave the term a second thought: I simply thought it meant a big church. Upon more reflection,...

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 2: Lead Through Change

Day 2: Lead through change.As you evaluate your culture and values, you may see some patterns and issues that require your church or organization to change. A common belief is that people resist change because they hate change. But I don’t think that’s true. People don’t hate change; they hate the...

Don’t Fight Back

Some criticism of our ministries will be valid. Others will come from partially informed people who might never understand or endorse our philosophy of ministry. With the explosion of online critics, it is tempting to jump into a conversation to tell your side of the story. While there might be...

Breaking Up the Systems

Even a good ministry system will eventually limit what God wants to do if the system doesn’t evolve or totally change. (By system, I mean any program, structure, philosophy, or culture that shapes and helps produce a desired outcome.) Once people operate within a system long enough, they often...

What Should Your Church Emails Include? - Unit 5

You’ve probably sent an email to your attenders at some point in your ministry, but you might be wondering…am I doing this right? Are they reading them? Do they even care? In this video, you’re going to hear about our approach to email at Life.Church, and what strategies your church can try to reach...

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