The Job is Building People: An Excerpt from Empowering Leaders
February 6, 2018
“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
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I Can’t Wait Until We Are In Our Own Building
January 2, 2018
“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
Five New Reasons Why You DO Want to Launch that New Church or Campus
December 27, 2017
What did leaders from more than 1,500 new churches or multisite campuses tell us about what they’ve learned and experienced? “8 Launch Wins,” our newly
Faster Growth Comes with Younger Pastors and Founding Pastors
December 19, 2017
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
Multisite Churches Are Training the Next Generation of Pastors
December 12, 2017
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
Multisite Churches Rate Themselves Much More Likely to Be Multipliers
December 1, 2017
Multisite churches rate themselves 82% more likely to be multipliers than a church that has never launched a new campus or site. We continue to
Leading Effectively When You Inherit a Mess and Other Articles Church Leaders Should Read
November 7, 2017
Here’s a collection of interesting, thought-provoking articles from around the web from recent weeks. For more links, check out our Flipboard magazines: Leadership Network Today, Leadership
New Pastors Show Disproportionate Vision to Plant and Launch
October 25, 2017
Which pastors are more likely to have visions for planting new churches or new sites? In an upcoming major research report from Leadership Network and
Multisite and Single Site – What the Shifts Look Like
October 25, 2017
83% of Pastors Under Age 40 “Have a Future Vision to Plant/Launch” a New Church or New Site In an upcoming major report that
A Conversation with James Eaton of Highlands Fellowship: Podcast 228
September 26, 2017
How does your online church fit with your local church? In this week’s podcast, we are joined by James Eaton, Online Director of Highlands Fellowship.
4 Types of Ministry Innovation
March 23, 2023
What do the wheel, compass, printing press, lightbulb, automobile, computer, internet, and smartphone all have in common? They were all breakthrough innovations that radically reshaped
LNP28 – Digital Strategies Beyond Weekend Services
March 23, 2023
Host: Jeff Reed Guest: Tyler Sansom Pastor, respect your physical church service enough to not broadcast it live. But that doesn’t mean your church should
Easter Prep: The Gospel You Might Be Missing
March 22, 2023
The big day is coming quickly. It’s almost Easter Sunday and all over the world pastors are working hard to show up on this Super
LNP27 – Life After Altspace
March 21, 2023
Host: Jeff Reed Guests: Stuart McPherson, VRTiger, and John Hazel AltspaceVR is dead. Well, not quite yet, but as of March 10, 2023, Microsoft will
The Now, The Next, and The Never Again – Part 1
March 20, 2023
Following the pandemic and painful discord in the American Church in its wake, I had been thinking—and telling friends privately—“I hope the whole thing burns
Rediscovering Your Church’s Digital Why
March 20, 2023
The digital age has revolutionized the way we communicate church, but in many ways it has yet to influence how we “be” the church. As
