NOTE: The Following is an excerpt from Faith-Based: A Biblical, Practical Guide to Strategic Planning in the Church, by Michael Gafa. Confidence and assurance for what lies ahead is rooted in understanding and appreciating what has already taken place. The whole of scripture reveals the breathtaking dimensions of God’s unfolding plan of redemption and restoration, which is assured in Christ. …
Engaging Followers – Luminex Podcast Episode 7
On this week’s podcast, John Messer, explains the ins and outs of Robert Kelly’s Follower Matrix and how that relates to discipleship and leadership development in your churches.
Growth Through Grafting
In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus talks about sowing the Word of God. How can church leaders best do this in the context of their congregation? On this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Mike Gafa, Luminex Coordinator, talks with us about something called growth through grafting. This idea is based on Jesus’ Parable of the Sower. In this parable, the seed …
Eight Trends in Church Planting, Part Two
In this week’s post we continue with Doug McClintic, Church Multiplication Catalyst for Luminex, as he discusses the last four of eight trends that he is observing in church planting: Trend 5: The marriage of the church as both congregation and missional community. Over the past 20 years pitting the gathered congregation of believers who meet in a particular place, …
Three Needs that Every Church Can Meet
Whether your church is big or small, old or new, there are three needs that every person longs for and every church can meet. On this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday Doug McClintic, Church Multiplication catalyst for Luminex, delves into these three needs – transcendence, significance, and community – and how every church can meet them. The first, transcendence, is the need …
Eight Trends in Church Planting, Part One
In this week’s post Doug McClintic, Church Multiplication Catalyst for Luminex, discusses the first four of eight trends that he is observing in church planting: Trend 1: Continued tragic mistakes on the part of sending agencies and churches. Church planting has come a long way in the past 20 years but as new churches, leaders and agencies come online in …
Frames of Leadership
Leaders come in all shapes and sizes, all with different competencies and emphases. What type of leader are you? And how can you develop competencies in other ways of leadership? On this Whiteboard Wednesday, Jill VerSteeg, Director of Transformational Engagement, delves into three different frames of leadership based on Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal’s book, Reframing Organizations. Each of these …
Disillusioned Leaders
Dis-illusioned Leaders Just as leadership overflows with opportunities and blessings, it also overflows with peril to leaders’ hearts and souls. Excessive demands, superhuman expectations, and an orientation to serve others can combine to make a dangerously toxic sludge that overflows into our souls, poisons our hearts, and sours our minds. Serving others becomes a chore and the positive, hope-filled labor …