Two Essential Practices of Missional Church Leadership (or any leader)

Having studied and now served/lived among a missional church community, I am seeing more and more the unique role leadership plays in this model of ministry. Initiating the paradigm of flat leadership (as apposed to hierarchal), these aren’t easy waters to navigate. In fact, in an attempt cultivate an ethos of shared leadership, the lines …

Lead By Position or Through Influence?

I recently wrote an article chronicling some of the key tensions I faced while working in the formal position of Youth Pastor.  It was published on the Youth Specialties site today.  Can you relate or have you experienced this tension? It was my first day working in the local public high school.  The teenagers walk …

Living Mission

We were about to pray for our Sunday evening community meal when a man walked in the front door looking a bit rattled.  He looked around the living room where we were all gathered in a semi-circle and said, “My car just got stolen in the alley behind your house.  Did any of you see …