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Summary: Getting the church leadership thing backward may be leading to more division and abuse in the church today than any other mistake. And it’s happening in churches everywhere you turn. There’s only one thing that produces the type of leader Jesus was and is. If people don’t go through this process, churches are just asking for trouble.
We Need To Talk About Leadership. Most Churches Have It Backward.Read More
Summary: Humans have this tendency to want to be in positions that make them feel valued, and the default (fleshly) way to achieve feelings of value is through one’s relative status when compared to other human beings. Jesus addressed the issue of status head-on and taught the disciples that Kingdom servant leaders strive for lower status in all relationships to be greater.
The #1 Leadership Characteristic of a Servant’s HeartRead More
Summary: Jesus lived the Christian life by the Divine Life of the Father in and through Him. When Jesus entered His second many-membered Body, the way that Divine Life is expressed, and the type of behavior that results, did not change. The only way this can be experienced is if Christ is leading by His Life through the whole Body. But churches that focus too heavily on human leadership tend to abandon this.
The Sure-fire Way To Abandon Christ’s Leadership In A ChurchRead More
Summary: The foundational expression of the Life of Christ in a church is mutual submission. But most of the time when leader/non-leader distinctions are made, the leader group just can’t seem to keep their end of the mutual submission deal. The organic, biblical process of Kingdom servant leader development gets passed over. When this happens, you get all sorts of trouble because now some people are more important than others in a church.
The #1 Way Submitting To One Another Disappears In A ChurchRead More
Summary: Counterfeit unity occurs in the relationships between people who want and like to have control and people who don’t mind being controlled. This relational setup seems like it benefits everyone involved and it keeps things in order. It does result in unity. But it’s not of the Spirit. You find this in concocted forms of church leadership or government over the years like one-bishop rule, one-pastor rule and elder rule that are formulated from erroneous interpretations of Scripture.
This is Where Authentic Unity in the Church is FoundRead More
Summary: What may be the biggest challenge to Christ-centered community is for it to allow Christ to be the Leader. There are 3 personalities people in community can have that tend to wreck it. True Christ-centered community is built on the foundation that all His followers stand on equal footing with equal rights and equal control.
3 Church Leader Personalities That Wreck Christ-Centered CommunityRead More
Summary: The concept of authority in human relationships was redefined by Christ. It only comes from Him, is shared among equals, and never takes more control. Seeing it any other way renders a believing community incapable of living out their priesthood.
How A Healthy Church Discerns & Lives By Christ’s AuthorityRead More
Summary: Each person that receives the Spirit of God is responsible to recognize God’s will in a church. But fear of this distributed responsibility leads churches to shift it and violate Christ’s new commandment and each Christian’s new identity as a priest to God. Correcting this leads to authentic unity and church transformation.
Who’s Responsible To Recognize God’s Will In A Church?Read More
You ever wonder why there are so many different Bible translations? Why can’t we just have one translation that tells us in OUR language what the authors meant by what they wrote in THEIR language and be done with it?!?! You shouldn’t have to translate a translation, right?!?!
3 Dangerously Misunderstood Bible Verses About Leadership in the ChurchRead More
At the beginning of the Bible, the author of Genesis tells us that part of God’s purpose for humans is to rule over every living thing except other humans (Genesis 1:26-28). They were to be co-equal partners in God’s mandate to make life in the physical realm flourish. This purpose does not change from the beginning to the end of the Scriptures, where God’s purpose is fully restored.
More Dangerously Misunderstood Bible Verses About Church LeadershipRead More
Getting the leadership thing backward may be leading to more division and abuse in the church today than any other mistake. And it’s happening in churches everywhere you turn.
Humans have this tendency to want to be in positions that make them feel valued, and the default (fleshly) way to achieve feelings of value is through one’s relative status when compared to other human beings. Jesus addressed the issue of status head-on and taught the disciples that Kingdom servant leaders strive for lower status in all relationships to be greater.
Unhealthy Church Leadership: 11 Warning Signs To Look Out ForRead More
Have you ever been in a situation where someone had a leadership position over you, but you felt like you actually influenced them with guidance and instruction to a greater measure than they influenced you? Have you ever been in that same situation and felt like your influence was simply and consistently rejected?
How Church Administration and Structure Is Supposed To WorkRead More
