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Leadership and Team-Based Ministry

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Why Be an Equipping Pastor? rev.org/interview with Vern Armitage - added Jan 05 2008
Abandonment Disorder Churches
- Leadership (Fall 2008)/Kenneth Quick - added Nov 02 2008
Hit Me with Your Best Shot
- Leadership (Fall 2008)/Dave Stone - added Nov 02 2008
How to Spend a Day Alone
- BuildingChurchLeaders.com/John Ortberg - added July 31 2008
Deciding without Dividing
- Leadership (2001)/Stephen Lim - added July 21 2008
What Do I Do Next?
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr. - added July 05 2008
Why I Don't Set Goals
- BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Jack Hayford - added June 12 2008
What Is the Personality of Your Church?
- rev.org/Todd Rhoades - added May 23 2008
Three Overlooked Leadership Roles
- Leadership Journal/Alan Hirsch - added May 21 2008
Sermon Prep: Sharing the Driver's Seat
- Leadership Journal/Brian Lowery - added May 13 2008
How to Read More
- ChurchLeaderInsights.com/Nelson Searcy - added May 13 2008
Take Me Home: The Power of Teams
- rev.org/Alan Nelson - added May 12 2008
Professional Jealousy
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr. - added Apr 18 2008
Trouble Brewing? What We Can Learn from the Starbucks Shut-down
- LeadershipJournal.net/Gordon MacDonald - added Mar 18 2008
People of the Book
- LeadershipJournal.net/John Ortberg - added Mar 18 2008
Critical Mess (on the optimum size for leadership board)
- rev.org/Alan Nelson - added Mar 17 2007
I Need Your Help
- rev.org/Alan Nelson - added Feb 19 2008
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of Ministry Teams
- Rev Magazine (Sept-Oct 2007)/Nancy Ortberg - added Jan 30 2008
Are You a Control Freak?
- Rev Magazine (Mar-Apr 2007)/Alan Nelson - added Jan 30 2008
The Missional Leader
- LeadershipJournal.net/Chad Hall - added Jan 29 2008
Effective Hospital Visits
- Leadership (Fall 2007)/Chris Blumhofer - added Jan 29 2008
"Unproductive" Visits
- Leadership (Fall 2007)/Scott Penner - added Jan 29 2008
Speed Modeling
- DCPI/Paul Becker - added Jan 09 2008
All I Have Is Second String: Can My B Players Make an A Team?
- Leadership (Fall 2007)/John Arnold - added Jan 08 2008
Worst Communication Habits for Church Staff
- rev.org/Todd Rhoades - added Jan 07 2008
Take Time to Be What?
- Leadership (Fall 2007)/Gordon McDonald - added Jan 01 2008
How Close Are You to Leaving Ministry?
- rev.org/Todd Rhoades - added Dec 03 2007
How to Leave Your Church with Grace
- Lifeway.com/Calvin Wittmann - added Oct 15 2007

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NLM Online Resources

Bibliography on Leadership, Vision, and Planning

Additional Staff Persons - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Attitude - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Beyond "Time, Talent, and Treasure": Discovering Our Gifts and Callings - Article/Jean Morris Trumbauer
Changing Behavior - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Coaching Leaders - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Common Mistakes in Introducing Change - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.

Concluding a Ministry?
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People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Delegating - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Discouragement - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Dysfunctional Architecture -
Article/J. David Schmidt
Equipping for Service - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Growth Issues: Spiritual Warfare - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.

Growth Pastor
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Ideas That Work: Lay Ministry Mobilization - Ideas
Involving Laity in Ministry
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Involving Others in Ministry
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Language That Preserves Community - Article/Ed Rowell
Leadership - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Leadership and Management: Neither Is Optional - New Life Ministries Report/Steve Clapp and Kristen Leverton Helbert
Littlest Leader - Article/Dave Travis
Mentoring Men - Ideas/Dan Lawson
Multiple Staff Relationship
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
On Playing God and Being Human - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Pastors, Love Your People!
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Paying the Rent - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
People Skills: So Necessary, So Scarce
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Personal Renewal - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Procrastination - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Professional Jealousy - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Reading People - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Recruitment - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Revealing Vision - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.

Riding the "Mo" Train - Leadership Wired (Vol 5 Issue 2)/John C. Maxwell
Servant Leadership - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Striving to Do Better - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.

The Difference between Preaching and Leading from the Pulpit - Part 1 and Part 2 - Article/Dan Reiland
The Equipping Pastor - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
The Pastor as Leader: Risk-Taker - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr
The Pastor as Leader: Survivor - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
The Pastor as Leader: Vision-Caster
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.

Understanding Common Sense
- People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.

Understanding Elders - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
What Do I Do Next? - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.
Where Do Pastors Come From? - People Spots/James W. Moss, Sr.

NLM Publications & Videos

Creating Quality in Ministry - Steve Clapp and Cindy Hollenberg Snider
Forms and Formats for the Local Church - Thomas C. Reike
Healthy Pastor—Healthy Church - S. Joan Hershey and Steve Clapp

Preaching, Planning, and Plumbing: The Implications of Bivocational Ministry for the Church and for You
- Steve Clapp, Ron Finney, and Angela Zimmerman
Riding the River–Congregational Outreach and the Currents of the 21st Century - Paul Mundey
Unlocking Church Doors: 10 Keys to Positive Change
- Paul Mundey

NLM Seminars

Unlocking Church Doors: 10 Keys to Positive Change - Paul Mundey

Other Internet Links

Abandonment Disorder Churches - Leadership (Fall 2008)/Kenneth Quick
An Honest Sermon - Leadership (Winter 2003)/Mike Woodruff & Steve Moore; and Reliable Sources: A Leadership Forum
An Open Letter to the Search Committee - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/a pastor's wife
Answering the Call - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Doyle Tunnell
Are You a Control Freak? - Rev Magazine (Mar-Apr 2007)/Alan Nelson
Barna Research Online's Top Data on Leadership and Pastors
Biblical Requirements of Leaders: Four Must-Have Traits - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Darrell W. Johnson
Blogs: 10 Ways Nearly Every Pastor Can Use Them - Pastors.com/Cory Miller
Can Effectiveness in Ministry Be Measured?: Vital Signs for Today - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Marhall Shelley
Captains Courageous - Leadership (Winter 2003)/Kevin Miller review of Bill Hybel's book, Courageous Leadership

Center for Church Based Training
Changing Leader in a Changing Culture -
LeadershipNext excerpt/Eddie Gibbs
Choosing Wise Leaders - Leadership (Spring 2002)/Mel Lawrenz
Church Ministry Sourcebook 07 - Group Publishing
Committees People Want to Join - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Roberta Hestenes
Conflict Issues Bibliography - Speed Leas
Confusion Regarding Leadership - Barna Research Online/George Barna
Congregations That Send People into Ministry - Explorer (Sept 10 2001)/Carol Childress
Crash Course in Conflict - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Gary Fenton
Creativity + Change = Innovation – Leader-Values.com/Grace McGartland
Critical Mess (on the optimum size for leadership board) - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Deciding without Dividing - Leadership (2001)/Stephen Lim

Development of a Healthy Pastor and Pastoral Family - John Marshall Crowe
Developing Leaders - Leadership Journal (Fall 1996 Theme)
Developing Vision for the New Millennium - Enrichment Journal (Winter 2000 Theme)
Discerning Your Church's Hidden Core Values - Leadership/Angie Ward (also see Nine Clues to Secret Core Values)
DNF (Did Not Finish) - LeadershipJournal.net/Gordon McDonald
Does the Vision Really Come First? - next-wave (Aug 2003)/Dave Ferguson

Doing Church as a Team - Explorer (Feb 12 2001)/Interview with Wayne Cordeiro
Dorothy on Leadership - EmergentVillage.com/Brian McLaren
Dream Big - OnLineRev.com

Dreamin' and Teamin' - Leadership Journal (Spring 2000)/Interview with Wayne Cordeiro
Effective Hospital Visits - Leadership (Fall 2007)/Chris Blumhofer
Finding Your Leadership Style: Ten Different Ways to Lead God's People - Leadership Journal (Winter 1998)/Bill Hybels
Five Tests to Measure Leadership Readiness - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Daniel Brown
Four Different Hats All Leaders Must Learn to Wear - Pastors.com/Stan Toler & Alan Nelson
Four Principles of Confrontation - PastorResources.com/Wayne Cordeiro
Get-It-Done Leadership - LeadershipJournal.net/Interview with Andy Stanley
Gift of Rebuke - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Gordon Macdonald and When YOU Do the Rebuking

Good Leaders Aren't Afraid to Look Ahead - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Rick Ezell
Growing Leaders - multiple articles, including: 

bulletConfessions of a Youth Minister - Merv Stoltzfus, Marlene Frankenfield, Curt Weaver
bulletLeadership: Proactive or Reactive? - James M. Lapp
bulletThe Paradox of Ministry - Warren L. Tyson
bulletTension in Ministry - Nate Showalter
bulletWhere Will We Find Our Pastors? - James M. Lapp

Haphazardly Intent - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Eugene Peterson
Heir Apparent - on pastoral succession - LeadershipJournal.net/Skye Jethani
Hit Me with Your Best Shot - Leadership (Fall 2008)/Dave Stone
Hooks, Lines, and Thinkers - Outreach/Brian Mavis
How Close Are You to Leaving Ministry? - reg.org/Todd Rhoades
How to Build Your Leadership Team: Ten Leadership Styles - OnLineRev.com
How to "De-Hire" a Staff Member - Pastors.com/Douglas Fagerstrom
How to Leave Your Church with Grace - Lifeway.com/Calvin Wittmann
How to Read More - ChurchLeaderInsights.com/Nelson Searcy
How to Spend a Day Alone - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/John Ortberg
How to Start an Accountability Group - ChristianBibleStudies.com/Christopher Easley
I Need Your Help - rev.org/Alan Nelson
If It's Not "How-to," It's Not Preaching: Part 1 and Part 2 - PreachingToday.com/Dave Ferguson and Colin Smith
Improve by Making Deliberate Mistakes - onlineRev/Alan Nelson

Injoy - especially see Assessing the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell
Intentional Interim Ministry for Your Church - HealthyChurch.org
Intentional Interim Ministry: Seven Stages  - Titus Ministries

Inviting Others to Join You: The Art of Empowerment - SmartLeadership.com/Nelson Searcy
Keeping Ourselves on Target - ChristianityToday.com/Bill Hybels
Key Points for a Search Committee - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Mark Lauterbach
Lasting Influence (Mentoring) - Leadership Journal (Summer 2003)
Leading (and Following) from the Second Chair - Pastors.com/Mike Bonem & Roger Patterson
Leaders' Top Three Mistakes - LeadershipJournal.net/Clark Cothern & Ron Potter

Leadership in the Third-World: What American Churches Can Learn from the Developing World - next-wave magazine (Jan 2003)/Chad Hall
Leadership on the Line - Rev! Magazine/Alan Nelson
Me to We 1-1: Just Say No (From Co-Dependent to Equipping Pastor) - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 1-2: The Secret of Getting Unstuck - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 1-3: Are You a Skipper or an Equipper? - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 1-4: Emperor or Empowerer? - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 2-1: Are You an Emperor or a Controller? - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 2-2: Are You a Promoter or a Recruiter? - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 2-3: Are You a Sharer or an Unleasher? - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 2-4: Are You a Coach or an Equipper? - rev.org/Alan Nelson

Me to We 2-5: Are You a Multiplier or an Empowerer? - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 3-1: Next Steps: The How of Change - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 3-2: Two Signs of Pastor-Centricity - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 4-1: The Inconvenience & Fear of "We" - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Me to We 4-2: "We" God or "wee god"? - rev.org/Alan Nelson

Mentoring That Makes a Difference - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Earl Palmer
Mentoring That Produces Mentors - Leadership (Summer 2003)/Rick Lowry
Missional: Possible: Steps to transforming a consumer church into a missional one - LeadershipJournal.net/Chad Hall
Moving to Team-Based Ministry - Explorer (Sept 11 2000)/Interview with Gary McIntosh and Dan Reeves
My Post-Pastoral Degree - Leadership (Summer 2002)/Mark Galli
Nine Clues to Secret Core Values (follow-up to Discerning Your Church's Hidden Core Values)
Our Allergic Reactions - LeadershipJournal.net/Brian McLaren
Out of Mediocrity: Review of Jim Collins' book, Good to Great - Leadership (Fall 2002)/Alan Nelson
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of Ministry Teams - Rev Magazine (Sept-Oct 2007)/Nancy Ortberg
Overseeing the Organization - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Donald Seibert
People of the Book - LeadershipJournal.net/John Ortberg
Preaching that Reaches the Unchurched - Leadership (Spring 2007)/Adam Hamilton

Principles for People Development
(scroll down to article)- Leadership Wired (June 2001)/John Maxwell
Protection from the Pressures
- Leadership Weekly/Dwight Perry
Reclaiming the Pioneer Spirit (Expanding Volunteers)
- BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Katie Adams
Regeneration, Deliverance, or Therapy?
- BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Archibald D Hart
Rejuvenate! - LeadershipJournal.net/Skye Jethani
Risking Lay Ministry - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Bruce Larson
Risk-Taking: From Zero to One - OnLineRev.com/Leonard Sweet
Second Chair Leadership Articles - SecondChairLeaders.com
Seduced by Power - Leadership Journal (Fall 2001 )/Gary Sinclair
Sermon Prep: Sharing the Driver's Seat - Leadership Journal/Brian Lowery
Servant Leadership for Church Renewal - David Young
So You Wanna Be a Church Leader, Huh?! - Rev!/Todd Rhoades
Speed Modeling - DCPI/Paul Becker
Steps to Transforming Committee Life - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Roberta Hestenes
Superman Is Dead: No More "Hero for Hire" Clergy - next-wave magazine (Apr 1999)/David Hopkins
Take Me Home: The Power of Teams - rev.org/Alan Nelson
Take Time to Be What? - Leadership (Fall 2007)/Gordon McDonald
Team Chemistry - OnLineRev.com/Alan Nelson

Team Visioning
- Church Champions Update (Sept 22 2000)/Inteview with Paul Ford
Ten Most Predictable Times of Conflict - Speed Leas
The All-Purpose Pastor - Leadership (Winter 2000)/Gary Fenton
The Busy Pastor: Protecting Your Time with God - Lifeway.com/John S Powers
The Care and Feeding of Leaders: Why Invest in Leadership Development? - BuiildingChurchLeaders.com/Roy Price
The Fine Art of Rejuvenation: Renewing Your Call
The Health Sequence: Five Questions, Asked in the Right Order, Will Boost Your Church's Vitality - Leadership (Winter 2003)/Roger Jenks
The Manipulation Game: How to Motivate without Manipulating - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Fred Smith
The Missional Leader - LeadershipJournal.net/Chad Hall
The Percentage of One - rev.org/Todd Rhoades
The Y Factor: Increasing the Volunteer Quotient
- Leadership (Winter 2003)/Bill Hybels
Thirty-Five Skills You'll Need for the 21st Century - Pastors.com/Sam Simmons
Three Overlooked Leadership Roles - Leadership Journal/Alan Hirsch
Time: How to Balance It All
- Pastors.com/Rick Warren
Trouble Brewing? What We Can Learn from the Starbucks Shut-down - LeadershipJournal.net/Gordon MacDonald
Twenty-Five Rules for Leaders - Fast Company (May 2002)/Linda Tischler
"Unproductive" Visits - Leadership (Fall 2007)/Scott Penner
Vision Planning Process - Vision Planners LLC/Thomas P Lutz
What I Wish I'd Known Before I Quit
- Church Leader's Newsletter (Nov 08 2000)/Anthony Laird
What Is the Personality of Your Church? - rev.org/Todd Rhoades
What Makes a Good Board? - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Marshall Shelley
What People Think of Today's Preaching - BuildingChurchLeaders.com
What's Your "Trust Rating"? - Rev! Magazine/Alan Nelson/Robert Hurley
When Faced with Two Options, Choose the Third
- Dan R. Dick
When It's Time to Leave - Leadership (Summer 2002)/Gordon MacDonald
When Not to Leave -
Leadership (Summer 2002)/Paul Anderson
When to Ignore Criticism - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Blaine Allen
Why Be an Equipping Pastor? rev.org/interview with Vern Armitage
Why I Don't Set Goals - BuildingChurchLeaders.com/Jack Hayford
Working Together: Secrets of an Effective Board Meeting – BuildingChurchLeaders.com/David Sawyer
Worst Communication Habits for Church Staff - rev.org/Todd Rhoades
You have not labored in vain - Christian History & Biography/Kevin Belmonte

This page last updated January 05, 2009

 

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