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Category Archives: personal growth
Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff, No. 8
We continue the “Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff” to avoid for those pastoral leaders who want to keep and develop quality staff ministry colleagues, (For those pastors who want to get rid of troubling church staff, then … Continue reading
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Tagged clergy, Israel Galindo, leadership
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Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff, No. 5
We continue the “Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff” to avoid for those pastoral leaders who want to keep and develop quality staff ministry colleagues, (For those pastors who want to get rid of troubling church staff, then … Continue reading
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Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff, No. 4
We continue the “Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff” to avoid for those pastoral leaders who want to keep and develop quality staff ministry colleagues, (For those pastors who want to get rid of troubling church staff, then … Continue reading
Posted in congregational life, leadership, personal growth, second chair
Tagged Israel Galindo, leadership
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Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff, No. 3
We continue the “Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff” to avoid for those pastoral leaders who want to keep and develop quality staff ministry colleagues, (For those pastors who want to get rid of troubling church staff, then … Continue reading
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Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff, No. 2
We continue the “Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff” to avoid for those pastoral leaders who want to keep and develop quality staff ministry colleagues, (For those pastors who want to get rid of troubling church staff, then … Continue reading
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Ten Best Ways to Ruin Your Church Staff
For those pastoral leaders who want to keep and develop quality staff ministry colleagues, here are the ten most common ways that pastors ruin church staff—and how to avoid them. (For those pastors who want to get rid of troubling … Continue reading
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Tagged clergy, Israel Galindo, leadership
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You are that which you search for
Today was Orientation for the entering students at the seminary. A great bunch of folks. I was intrigued by the diversity in the group, including the span in ages and life experiences. The group served to confirm the reality that … Continue reading
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Leadership in Ministry Workshops summer newsletter
The current issue of the Leadership in Ministry Workshops newsletters is now available. In this issue:
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Speaking the truth in love
I’m revisiting some of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Few have written better on the matter of community. I came across his thoughts on speaking the truth in love in community that I find timely. I’ll confess I remain perpetually … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, community, discipleship, Israel Galindo
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Back to basics: The Triangle 7
We continue the series on basic concepts in Bowen Family Systems Theory (BFST). Today’s question: Does “thinking triangles” make leadership easier?
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