Church Leadership and Succession November 20, 2020 By Ministry Grid By Todd Adkins A critical part of leadership is recognizing that your fruit grows on other people’s trees. Fruitful leadership focuses on the responsibility of healthy leadership reproduction as …
Five Things I Wish I Had Known About Succession October 31, 2018 By lwleadership By William Vanderbloemen When I first began researching church successions, I studied 500 pastoral successions then wrote a book about it. Here are five things I wish I would’ve known about …
Six Principles for a Successful Transition October 24, 2018 By lwleadership By Bob Russell In 2006, I transitioned out of the church I had led for 40 years. The transition was challenging, but it has been successful. There are six principles I’ve found that will help any …
Five Difficult Pastors to Succeed – November 22, 2017 By lwleadership By Thom Rainer “That’s not the way Pastor Bob would do it.” The church member may have meant well, but her words stung the new pastor. After all, he had been at the church for only three months, …
More Great Quotes from Pipeline 2017 – October 26, 2017 By lwleadership Recently, we hosted our second annual Pipeline Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Pipeline is a gathering for for creating constructs to develop leaders and plan for succession at every level of …