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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...

Church Planting

How to Know if You Should Plant a Church

Should everyone be a church planter? Just like everyone may not be called to be a vocational pastor, not everyone may feel an impression to plant a church. In this video John Davidson, Director of Leadership Development at Church Multiplication Network, discusses principles for exploring the desire...

Leading in the Right Role

Before you step up to speak, before you have a developmental conversation, and before you cast vision, there’s one thing you have to do first. You need to clearly define the purpose. There are three important things to consider to define your purpose: • What you want people to know. Too oft...

Online Ministry

Church Online Playbook: Leveraging Facebook Groups

Download the complete playbook for free here. Let’s Reach the World Together: A step-by-step process to build community and reach more people online. Each week, more than 270,000 people attend Life.Church Online from every country and territory on the map. We’ve celebrated over 100,000 people su...

Leadership Podcast: The Forbidden Phrase

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast. Like what you’re learning? Share it with your friends, family, or co-workers and let’s learn to grow as leaders together! In this episode, Craig discusses three words that shouldn’t be part of a leader’s vocabulary: Our people won’t. Th...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Investing Your Resources the Right Way, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In this episode, let’s talk about an important skill that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves: resource allocation. Resource allocation is investing your available resources in the present to accomplish your goals and objectives...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Sharpening Your Communication Skills, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! If you’re a leader, you probably also want to improve as a speaker. Most of us see video of ourselves and get depressed because we’re not as good as we think we are. Today, we’ll discuss a few ways we can sharpen our communication skills...

Leadership Podcast: Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In this episode, Craig will discuss the importance of urgency in success. The greatest threat to future success is current success. Success feeds pride, and pride kills urgency: nothing fails like success. In many organizations, urgency i...

Communication: The Seven Touch Points

Sometimes people ask about our communication strategy for attracting new people to Life.Church and retaining current attenders. Because people are more distracted than ever and going to church less frequently, we want to get them excited about upcoming content so they’ll come (and bring a frien...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Investing Your Resources the Right Way, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In this episode, let’s talk about four common allocation mistakes leaders often make, and how we can avoid those mistakes to invest our resources the right way. 1. Static resource allocation. One way people describe insanity is “doing t...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Strengthening a Struggling Team

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! There’s nothing like being on an amazing, focused and passionate team. There’s no limit to what can be accomplished when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit. Unfortunately, it’s way more common to be on a Struggling Team. A struggl...

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