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Saturday Afternoon Book Review: Take the Lid off Your Church

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Just finished reading Tony Morgan’s new book Take the lid off your church. What I love about Tony’s books is how short they are. This one clocks in at about 30 minutes to read it.

In it, he answers these basic, but important questions about the leadership team of a church:

  • When should you begin building a senior leadership team?
  • What are the roles of this team?
  • Who should be on the senior leadership team?
  • How does this team empower other leaders in the organization?
  • What should the senior leadership start and stop doing? What’s their focus?

Who is on a leadership team at a church is the most important decision a leader of a church makes. This team will decide how money is spent, how ministry is done, how people are cared for, how the vision and values will be passed on and ultimately, they will determine the health of a church.

The rest of the church will take its cues from this team. The leaders of a church and the leaders on the senior leadership team of a church will define a church.

Now, if you are looking for a lengthy book on team and leadership, this isn’t the book. I can’t imagine a pastor who has time for that book. This one is short, practical, right to the point and reads like a collection of incredibly helpful blog posts.

Links I Like

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Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like. 
  1. Craig Groeschel on Disrupt rhythms strategically.
  2. Someone needs to stop Pat Robertson.
  3. Darrin Patrick on Loving your wife and the mission.
  4. Men, here’s the most important meeting of the day.
  5. Mac Lake on The reason your church lacks leaders. Like all things in a church, if you want something to happen, you must be intentional.
  6. A kind wife.

My Notes from the WCA Global Leadership Summit

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So many great leadership nuggets at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit last week. If you missed it, or a session, here are all my notes from it.

What was your biggest takeaway from the summit?

For me, it was the 6X6 idea from Bill Hybels, game changing.

My Notes from Day 1 of the Leadership Summit

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In case you missed them, here are my notes from day 1 of the Willow Creek Leadership Summit.

What was your biggest takeaway from day 1 of the summit?

Leadership Summit Session 4 | Craig Groeschel

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Craig Groeschel wrapped up the first day of the Willow Creek Leadership Summit with a talk titled “The Strongest Link.”

Craig is the Founding and Senior Pastor of Lifechurch.tv, a pioneer in multi-campus church, LifeChurch.tv holds 76 weekly worship experiences, ministering to over 40,000 people. They are known for leveraging technology to reach a new generation, including the development of LifeChurch’s popular YouVersion Bible App.

He is the author of It, The Christian Atheist, Weird, and Soul Detox. 

Here are some highlights I grabbed from his talk:

  • My advice to older pastors, don’t resent, fear or judge the next generation. Believe in them because they need you.
  • If you aren’t dead, God isn’t done with you yet.
  • You don’t just delegate tasks, you create followers. You delegate authority to create leaders.
  • Authenticity trumps cool.
  • Younger leaders need older leaders to come alongside of them. Don’t be prideful, you need older leaders.
  • The younger generation is known as entitled.
  • When you’re entitled, you overestimate what you can do in the short run, but you will underestimate what you can do through a lifetime of faithfulness.
  • Honor given publicly leads to influence privately.
  • You’re husband might not be honorable because you don’t show him honor. Honor is given, respect is earned.
  • We have to be intentional about creating opportunities to learn from one another
    • Create ongoing feedback loops from those who are older and younger than you
      • Allow those in other life stages to speak into your message before giving it
    • Create specific mentoring moments
    • Create opportunities for significant leadership development
  • The next generation believes in themselves more when the older generation believes in them
  • If you are younger, honor those who went before you.

What was your biggest takeaway from this session?

Lots of Cheap Kindle Books 4.18.12

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There are a ton of great kindle books for cheap today:

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Links of the Week

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  1. Leaders you need to be following on twitter. If you are leader, you should be following the people on this list.
  2. Developing as a preacher. If you want to become a better communicator, read this.
  3. Rediscovering the old fashioned shave. I have to admit, I’m intrigued by this.
  4. Thom Rainer on The lifecycle of a pastor. Helpful stuff for pastors and churches and why some are effective and others aren’t.
  5. Are you in better shape than the average man?
  6. Craig Groeschel on How a pastor trains his church. This is solid stuff.
  7. 23 reasons for rapid church growth.
  8. Reading is one of the things that sets great leaders apart.
  9. Michael Hyatt on 10 mistakes leaders should avoid at all costs.
  10. What we organizations can learn from the leadership of Steve Jobs.
  11. Kevin Eikenberry on 10 great morning habits.
  12. If you are a parent, you need to read this.
  13. Al Mohler on Abortion is as American as apple pie. This is pretty eye opening.
  14. What we can learn from Newt Gingrich’s marriages.
  15. Russell Moore on The gospel in an abortion culture.