ABOUT DAN REILAND

Dan Reiland
Dr. Dan Reiland serves as 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 of Leadership and Church Development at INJOY. He and Dr. Maxwell still enjoy partnering on a number of church related projects together. Dan is best known as a leader with a pastor's heart, but is often described as one of the nations most innovative church thinkers. His passion is developing leaders for the local church so that the Great Commission is advanced.

4 Questions That Can Prevent Your “Leadership Autopsy”

These 4 questions will help you keep an eye on your critically important paid (and volunteer) staff relationships and prevent the necessity of an “ leadership autopsy” (What went wrong?) conversation.

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5 Guidelines for Conflict Resolution

Conflict is no stranger in the church. Leaders cause motion and motion causes friction!

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2 Necessities for Health in Discipleship AND Evangelism

While there is a natural gravitational pull in churches toward discipleship, evangelism, will not consistently happen without great discipline, effort and intentionality.

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Two of the Best Questions to Ask to Determine if Your Small Groups are Working

Here are two of the best questions to ask to help figure out if your small groups are working.

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10 “Different Numbers” That Really Matter

I think there may be more to learn about strengthening a local church ministry by knowing some of these “other numbers.”

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5 Practical Points in Leading a Turnaround Church

There are layers of complexity involved in any turnaround scenario, but the core principles are always similar. The following practical points will help you lead your church back to the place you dream it could be.

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comment_post_ID); ?> Thank you Ed for sharing your insights into the Church Growth Movement. I have my reservations with Church Growth models because it has done more damage than good in the Body of Christ. Over the years, western churches are more focused on results, formulas and processes with little or no emphasis on membership and church discipline. Pastors and vocational leaders are burnt out because they're overworked. I do believe that the Church Growth model is a catalyst to two destructive groups: The New Apostolic Reformation and the Emerging Church. Both groups overlap and have a very loose definition. They're both focus on contemporary worship, expansion of church brand (franchising), and mobilizing volunteering members as 'leaders' to grow their ministry. Little focus on biblical study, apologetics and genuine missional work with no agenda besides preaching of the gospel.
 
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comment_post_ID); ?> Thank you for sharing such a good article. It is a great lesson I learned from this article. I am one of the leaders in Emmanuel united church of Ethiopia (A denomination with more-than 780 local churches through out the country). I am preparing a presentation on succession planning for local church leaders. It will help me for preparation If you send me more resources and recommend me books to read on the topic. I hope we may collaborate in advancing leadership capacity of our church. God Bless You and Your Ministry.
 
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Clarity Process

Three effective ways to start moving toward clarity right now.