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How Making Wise Decisions Can Become Second Nature To A Church

Category: Church Leadership Tags: authority, communication, decentralization, decision-making by Michael Fleming

Summary: A group's culture regulates its behavior, and that culture is established by the standards and principles they've agreed to. Decision-making …

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3 Phenomena That Can Cause Your Church To Be Dumber

Category: Church Leadership Tags: authority, decentralization, decision-making, diversity, psychology by Michael Fleming

Summary: Breakdowns in a church's decision-making processes can lead to 3 phenomena that violate the conditions a group needs to be consistently wise. …

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Why The Smartest Christians Can Make The Worst Decisions

Category: Church Leadership Tags: authority, decision-making, psychology by Michael Fleming

Summary: There's no such thing as a decision-making expert. Even so-called "experts" disagree on what could or should happen much of the time, and …

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How Understanding Royalty Helps You Understand God’s Kingdom

Category: The Kingdom of God Tags: authority, christian identity, discipleship, dominion, prayer, submission by Michael Fleming

Summary: In the Kingdom, there are no subjects. There is only royalty. This is why we have an innate frustration with human authority. Like Christ, …

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How Understanding Colonization Helps You Understand God’s Kingdom

Category: The Kingdom of God Tags: authority, church lifestyle, dominion by Michael Fleming

Summary: Expansion is an essential activity of God's Kingdom. God designed this to occur through his personal representatives colonizing the earth …

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How Understanding Citizenship Helps You Understand God’s Kingdom

Category: The Kingdom of God Tags: authority, christian identity, responsibility, transformation by Michael Fleming

Summary: Citizenship is not earned. It is granted upon birth. Therefore, citizens aren't religious people. They're legal people. But God's Kingdom …

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What Google, eBay & Amazon Can Teach Churches About Leadership

Category: Church Leadership Tags: authority, decentralization, power by Michael Fleming

Summary:  Google, eBay & Amazon all put systems in place where influence was based on trust earned over time.  The Kingdom doesn't contain leader …

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12 Unique Qualities Of An Authentic Church Planter

Category: Church Planting Tags: authority, decentralization by Michael Fleming

Summary:  Those called to be church planters have very unique qualities.  There are 12 in particular that stand out.  They can be a guide to …

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This Amazing Animal Shows Us How Healthy Churches Function

Category: Church Structure & Order Tags: authority, church lifestyle, decentralization, power by Michael Fleming

Summary: Because everything we've known is from the world's system, we have a hard time making sense of how the Kingdom of God operates.  But the …

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Is Paying People To Do Ministry Healthy For A Church?

Category: Church Structure & Order Tags: authority, decentralization, money, power by Michael Fleming

Summary:  Paying people to do ministry centralizes the open system that God designed the Church to be and creates divisions in His Body that He never …

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