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By Darren Young In 1986, Jon Bon Jovi released a song entitled Livin’ on a Prayer. I grew up listening to it. I don’t remember most of the lyrics, but…
By Darren Young Are you living in the same tension as I am right now? The tension (in this COVID-19 season) of leading strongly yet also abiding deeply. Every day…
We’re each experiencing the weight of isolation and uncertainty in the midst of this leadership challenge. It’s unlike anything we’ve seen before. The people in our churches are experiencing…
In partnership with Billy Graham Center, Exponential, Catalyst, Discpleship.org, and ARC, Leadership Network conducted a survey of church leaders and pastors’ responses to the COVID-19 epidemic and quarantine. The purpose…
Pivot. When I was in high school, ‘pivot’ was simply something I needed to do when playing basketball. Keep your pivot foot. If you didn’t pivot, the referee blew the whistle….
To best serve you as a church leader during this uncertain time, we are asking that you take a few minutes to fill out this short survey. By doing…
By Darren Young One of the things I love to do is run marathons. Don’t stop reading! Let’s go somewhere important, even if you despise running. When I started pastoring,…
Next week, our very own Kadi Cole will be on the mainstage at the Exponential Global Conference sharing with thousands of church planters and leaders. God has positioned Kadi with…
Dan Reiland is the Executive Pastor at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He previously partnered with John Maxwell for 20 years, first as Executive Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, then as Vice President…
The new year is underway, and I’m sure that you are eager to see God do some great things in your ministry context. As a leader, you will likely experience…
I was recently with a church staff in an affluent, well-educated East Coast suburb. They were trying to shift their church model from “hired staff” managing volunteers to where staff’s…
“Christians have a bad reputation in this arena, and sadly, in many cases it is well deserved. We do not have a good track record of showing love and pursuing…
“The gospel of self-reliance is always bad news because it always leads to more anxiety.” – Steve Cuss Does anxiety get in the way of your ability to be an…
Will Chung Ministry/Vocation – Founder of The Meeting Place TMP Why commit to becoming an LN Associate – Leadership Network has been one of the leading voices and partners to…
Rashawn Copeland Founder of Without Walls Ministries/ Frontier Creative OKC What fascinates me the most about Leadership Network is their heart for the local church. I love how they annually…
Grant Skeldon Founder of Initiative Network & Nxt Gen Advisors Leadership Network is convening and accelerating some of the most influential churches in the nation. I just wanted to join…
Caleb Stanley Ministry/Vocation – Co Founder and Author of The Alternative, Producer Why commit to becoming an LN Associate – Leadership Network has been a crucial in pushing the…
Monica Zuniga Founder of We Are Unveiled & Nxt Gen Advisors Leadership Network is passionate about equipping the body while leading conversations and initiatives facing the Church today. I am…
In our most recent FREE report “Seven Vital Benchmarks in Church Compensation” (available at this link), the second finding deals with the percentage of church budget that goes to staffing….
The question came from one of our clients: What policies do churches put in place for staff wanting to take on “extra jobs?” Brent Dolfo on our team began to…
For those of you that have already read our Free Compensation Survey Summary Report, 7 Vital Benchmarks in Church Compensation, you noticed the findings about Per Capita Giving embedded in…
Last month, Leadership Network released our latest editions of the Large Church Compensation Reports. On our updated salary page you will see LOTS of choices. Those aren’t meant to confuse you,…
Larry’s original interview appeared on the Harper Collins blog: Lead Like A Shepherd: The Secret to Leading Well. We are reposting with permission. What makes leading like a shepherd so…
Dr. Warren Bird recently announced that he has some big news, Warren, what’s your news? After a great 13-year run with Leadership Network, I’ve become Vice President of Research and Equipping…
In Lead Like A Shepherd, The Secret of Leading Well, pastor, author and leadership consultant, Larry Osborne unpacks instruction for church leaders found in 1 Peter where…
A few weeks ago, we informed you that Bob Buford had died. The response from you was overwhelming. Every message you sent meant a great deal to us. For those…
Another edition of THE STIR – our podcast with host Dave Travis and featuring Greg Ligon Notes from this episode: Notes on our Accelerators Rethink partnerships – one of the…
Last week we shared the news that Bob Buford had died and now is safe in the arms of Jesus. That content and the accompanying blog article were written by Dr….
In this episode of The Stir, Greg Ligon, one of the pioneers of multisite, explains the first of the movemental shifts happening across the field. He shares some of the…
Host Dave Travis interviews Brent Dolfo in this 16 minute show about church leadership development. Notes from this interview: It’s time to rethink the process in churches. How Leadership Development…
Great Leadership Development practices also include a bit of math. In this episode of The Stir, a new podcast on Church Innovation and Implementation, Brent Dolfo talks about how churches…
“Coming in we thought we were doing good at leadership development, but now we see a path to becoming a lot better.” In their newly released research on multisite…
Our fearless research director, Dr. Warren Bird, has done it again. By mining the great insights of the polling we did in 2017 he has uncovered more great facts that clearly…
“It isn’t about the leader. It never was about the leader. It will never be about the leader. It will always and only be about Jesus and his people.” –…
The STIR- is the new podcast from Dave Travis of Leadership Network. What is the latest in Leadership Development in large churches? This edition focuses on Church Leadership Development. The…
“I can’t wait until we are in our own building.” Not so fast. This statement is heard a lot among church planters and campus pastors who are currently in portable…
In our continuing list of nuggets uncovered in our Leadership Network/Portable Church Industries upcoming report, this insight sounds obvious. Recall first that the churches in Leadership Network’s sample universe tend…
Pastoral training models are constantly evolving. In our continuing series (link to the previous here, here, and here) of nuggets discovered in our soon-to-be released report from Leadership Network/Portable Church…
Millennials are leaving the church in droves. Can evangelical Christianity survive without them? Through a unique and brilliant synthesis of theology and sociology, David John Seel argues that millennials can…
Recently, I sat down with Alan Briggs, author of Everyone’s a Genius: Unleashing Creativity for the Sake of the World, a recent release through Leadership Network’s NEXT series. Alan, through…
