ABOUT VRCURATOR

VRcurator
Bob Adams is Auxano's Vision Room Curator. His background includes over 23 years as an associate/executive pastor as well as 8 years as the Lead Consultant for a church design build company. He joined Auxano in 2012.

Understanding Gen Z: See Their Perspective

In beautiful and surprising ways, Gen Zers are searching for God on earth, not some trendy program your church has to offer.

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The Generosity Revolution Part 1: Fan the Flames

A revolution of generosity will only occur as pastors, financial chairs and stewardship chairs live and give witness to the importance of generosity in their personal lives and then intentionally recruit and train others to join the revolution.

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Understanding GenZ: Know Their Personality

While there has been a great deal of conversation about “fixing” the Millennial generation, we are in danger of missing the next generation as they step into the workplace – and leadership roles at our churches.

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The Art of Leadership and Time Management – Part Three

Getting on top of everything instead of being buried underneath it will most likely require a significant paradigm shift in your day-to-day work.

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The Art of Leadership and Time Management – Part 2

Faced with a mountain of tasks to do and things to accomplish, most of us feel immediately better when we’ve put all of these things on a “to-do list.” But that value is practically nothing unless you find a way to act upon that thing.

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Hack the Church Conference Room: Part One – Leading with Influence

Leaders recruit and influence followers to work together to make a shared vision reality.

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The Challenge of Conflict, Part Two: Taming It

Identifying and understanding our conflict management styles will usually help us work through conflicts in a quicker and more satisfactory conclusion for all parties involved.

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Maximize Team Effectiveness, Part 2: Escape the 9 to 5 Rut

9 to 5 is a practice engrained into our psyche which would have us believe that only during those hours at an office can real work take place.

It’s just not true anymore.

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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.
 
— Dave
 
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.
 
— Argaw Alemu
 

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