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Facebook Live: Creating a Strong Culture

A strong church culture helps your staff feel closer to your mission, become better leaders, and reach more people for Christ. But how do you create a strong culture, and how do you keep it healthy? Jerry Hurley, Life.Church Directional Team Leader, shares from almost 20 years of experience how he...

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Facebook Live: Tough Pastoral Conversations

If you’ve ever felt unequipped to handle tough pastoral conversations, watch our conversation with Dr. Kim Kimberling, a licensed counselor, as he shares best practices in providing pastoral care and helping attenders develop a relationship with a Christian counselor. This on-demand video was pa...

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Making Every Easter Better

Life.Church Oklahoma City Campus Pastor Chis Beall sat down with Open Network for a conversation about Easter. Pastor Chris discusses how to prepare your staff for Easter, how to keep your newcomers engaged, and much more! For more Easter trainings, graphics, messages, and more, visit our Open Ne...

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Tips for Easter Services

Pastor Chris Beall from Life.Church Oklahoma City sat down with us to discuss some of his best tips for a successful Easter Sunday. For more Easter trainings, graphics, messages, and more, visit our Open Network Easter page ....

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Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Motivating Your Team

When we think about motivation, it’s easy to start with the wrong assumption about people. People are not unmotivated. Everyone is motivated by something—they’re just not all motivated by the same things. In fact, let’s look at a good leader’s definition of motivation: The art of leading someone...

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5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 5: Lead Yourself

Day 5: Lead yourself. The most important person you will ever lead is yourself. We've discussed leading and growing our church, but in this new year it's important not to forget yourself in the process. One of the biggest factors in growing as leaders is your inner dialogue. When you wake up and...

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5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 4: Empower Leaders

Day 4: Empower leaders. As we empower others to lead, it’s important to delegate authority not just tasks. If you delegate tasks, you will build followers (people who will do what they're told to do). If you delegate authority, you'll build leaders (people who will do what they're called to do.)...

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5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 3: Give and Receive Feedback

Day 3: Give and receive feedback. As leaders, we have the responsibility to ask for and give feedback in a life-giving way. Why? Without honest and timely feedback your personal and organizational growth is always limited. Feedback is one of the most important tools for personal growth, but how d...

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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 t...

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Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 2

In last month’s episode , we talked about craving useful feedback and three factors that matter when you’re receiving it. This month, let’s talk about three factors that matter when you’re giving feedback . 1. When you give feedback. For some organizations, the most common time for fe...