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Pastors: Stop Doing 80% of What You’re Doing!

If you’re a pastor, a lot of the things you’re spending time on each week may not be producing as much fruit (making disciples) as you think. But all of us get caught on a hamster wheel of things we’ve added to our list of responsibilities, or someone else has, that over time become a huge waste of our energy and resources.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we talk about why most leaders should STOP doing 80% of what they’re currently doing. You are facing what may be the biggest opportunity you’ll ever have to reset your schedule as things get restarted.

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4 Generation Leadership Explosion

As a leader, your time spent developing and equipping the right people can have immediate and expansive results.

Leadership development is really just apprenticeship or discipleship further along the path of faith, knowledge, and skills. Discipleship further up the slope. If you have trained people in such a way that they can now reproduce and train others, in turn producing future leaders, you have the makings of a true movement.

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Rebooting Community Rhythms After Lockdown

As we move back toward normal and new rhythms in community, this can be a powerful time to re-evaluate our commitment to God’s mission, which has always been making disciples of Jesus.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we give you practical steps for rebooting your community rhythms as the lockdown and social distancing restrictions are beginning to lift.

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Shifting Your Small Groups to Vibrant Missional Communities

Around the world thousands of churches have loads of people involved in what we’ve come to know as “small groups”. And that’s a good thing. But often these groups can become very inward focused–not a lot of outward or missional impulse. It’s time to shift those small groups to missional communities!

Transitioning small groups or community groups to missional communities is much more than a name change. It’s much more than a weekly meeting (of mostly Christians) and it’s not just a monthly service project added in and called “mission”. (more…)

The ‘New Normal’ Will Need Daring New Leaders

The “new normal” we are entering into as believers will require daring new leaders who partner with their people, open new doors for not-yet believers, and model new ways of BEing the church.

This week on the Lifeschool Podcast, we talk about how our current and evolving reality as the Church will require leaders to become humble guides and equippers. Our new normal will need new types of leaders!