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.

Clarity of Vision: The Difference Between Status Quo and Achieving Your Vision

When you clearly visualize the outcome you want in vivid detail and really feel how it feels, it’s hard not to get excited about taking action!

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Four Rules of Thumb to Get You Started Toward Ministry Innovation

Here are four memorable little rules of thumb aim to help guide your decision making as you address ministry and organizational challenges alike.

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Pastor’s Primer for Periscope Now Available

This Pastor’s Primer for Periscope is designed to educate and inspire the everyday leader, even those only marginally involved in social media, to the possibilities of Periscope for you and your team.

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Uncertainty is No Excuse for Lack of Strategy in Your Church

If we live in an uncertain, fast-moving, turbulent world today, why would it be any different a week, a month or a year from now?

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Work Simply to Live Fully: Exploring 4 Productivity Styles

Create a personalized productivity toolkit that is in alignment with the way you think and fully supports you.

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Open Your Ministry to the Power of a Generation

Through the voice of a 20-something, get a glimpse into the heart of a young generation of leaders, and be inspired by the possibilities.

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Honoring the Life and Legacy of Lyle Schaller

In a small way to honor Lyle Schaller for the contributions he has made to the life and legacy of the American Church, many of our team will be writing, Tweeting, and posting to Facebook and Instagram today.

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4 Steps in the Hard Work of Creating Strategy

Without stating and integrating a simple strategy, your church will remain stuck in a bottleneck of the status quo. With a strategy, your church can develop its unique approach to growing disciples.

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Positive Learning from Negative Feedback

Leaders in all sizes and types of organizations often face negative feedback and criticism – and many have problems dealing with it. Maybe it’s time to blow criticism away with “TNT”.

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— Abel Singbeh
 
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
 

Clarity Process

Three effective ways to start moving toward clarity right now.