Successful Scheduling Using Reality, Not Rules
by: Philip Nation
Knowing that we’re all looking for a life hack that will increase our effectiveness, here are some ideas for scheduling for success.
ABOUT PHILIP NATION
serve as the Director of Advancement and Global Impact Churches with the Baptist World Alliance and frequently speak at churches and conferences. I earned a Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 2010-2012, I was the national spokesperson for the Back to Church Sunday campaign from Outreach. Over the years, I’ve served as a pastor, minister of education, and a church planter.
My latest published work is the video-based Bible study Pursuing Holiness: Applications from James. In 2016, I published Habits for Our Holiness: How the Spiritual Disciplines Grow Us Up, Draw Us Together, and Send Us Out with Moody Publishers. I’ve coauthored two other books: Compelled: Living the Mission of God and Transformational Discipleship: How People Really Grow. I was also the general editor of The Mission of God Study Bible. Along the way, I have written the small-group studies Storm Shelter: Psalms of God’s Embrace, Compelled by Love: The Journey to Missional Living and Live in the Word, plus contributed to The Great Commission Resurgence: Fulfilling God’s Mandate in Our Lifetime.
Three Reasons Generosity Matters
by: Philip Nation
How we use money is a signal about what we value. On a spiritual level, how we use money is a signal about our faith and a tool for to increase our faithfulness.
5 Permissions of the Great Commission
by: Philip Nation
To fulfill The Great Commission, we need change. Here are five potential changes we need and one reminder to encourage you in the changes.
Maturing Believers Through Process Not Events
by: Philip Nation
We can make disciples without adding an extra hundred or two hundred or one thousand events to the church calendar.
10 Ideas for Personal Leadership Development
by: Philip Nation
The work of the minister, pastor, elder, and/or church leader is to equip the church as a whole and believers individually for God’s work in the world. How is a church leader to engage in personal development?
The Importance of Being Sent
by: Philip Nation
The church is now a commissioned group in the world, having been sent so people can hear the witness of the Gospel (Rom 10:15).
Getting Help for Your Thinking Problem
by: Philip Nation
Seven strategies to implement more thinking time into the leader’s life.
Ministry Leaders: Do You Recruit People for the Task or Reproduce Leaders for the Mission?
by: Philip Nation
Connect, Philip Nation, Reproduce, Serve, reproduce leaders, reproduction
When you keep a kingdom perspective, it will be easier to reproduce leaders rather than recruit followers.
These Three Things Are Not Disicipleship
by: Philip Nation
The three bad definitions for discipleship that you need to recognize and move past.
8 Principles for Teaching Leadership from the Bible
by: Philip Nation
Leadership, Philip Nation, What the Bible says about leadership
Leadership is definitely put on display and explicitly taught in the Bible. But, like all other subjects, it requires careful interpretation and handling with nuance.
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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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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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