Summary: A group's culture regulates its behavior, and that culture is established by the standards and principles they've agreed to. Decision-making …
How Making Wise Decisions Can Become Second Nature To A ChurchRead More
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 …
How Making Wise Decisions Can Become Second Nature To A ChurchRead More
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. …
3 Phenomena That Can Cause Your Church To Be DumberRead More
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 …
Why The Smartest Christians Can Make The Worst DecisionsRead More
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, …
How Understanding Royalty Helps You Understand God’s KingdomRead More
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 …
How Understanding Colonization Helps You Understand God’s KingdomRead More
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 …
How Understanding Citizenship Helps You Understand God’s KingdomRead More
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 …
What Google, eBay & Amazon Can Teach Churches About LeadershipRead More
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 …
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 …
This Amazing Animal Shows Us How Healthy Churches FunctionRead More
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 …
Is Paying People To Do Ministry Healthy For A Church?Read More