Delegation: The What
Issue #426, July 1, 2026 Of the many things I’m doing, what should I delegate? Effective leaders learn which responsibilities they need to strategically move from their plate to others on their team. Again, we can learn important lessons by observing the actions of the apostles in the early church. 1In those days when the […]
Paul: Build on Strength™
Issue #396, April 16, 2025 Great leaders build teams around them to help accomplish the vision. They understand that there is no such thing as a well-rounded leader, but there are well-rounded teams. Build on Strength™ is the fourth action in the Serving Leader Model® (*see note). It means leveraging the strengths of each individual […]
#391 Serving Leaders Follow Those Around Them
#391, Feb. 5, 2025 Leaders lead—but they also follow! We have examined how serving leaders follow those in authority over them and how they follow those ahead of them. In this issue, we’ll continue to look at Paul’s instructions to the church in Corinth and reflect on how leaders follow those around them, their peers. […]
#385 Serving Leaders Produce a Thriving World: They Synchronize the Team
October 30, 2024 When the vision, values and mission of any organization are clarified and embedded deeply into the culture of the organization people thrive. But Paul’s vision also includes two more actions serving leaders can take to build a thriving world. 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and […]
#374 Nehemiah: Build on Strength™
May 24, 2024 The vision of Nehemiah to rebuild the wall required a variety of strengths to accomplish. Nehemiah recognized that he did not have all the strengths needed to accomplish the task—he needed a team. He was a great leader but Nehemiah was not capable of doing all that was needed for the building […]
#368 Secure Leaders Embrace Differences
February 28, 2024 Secure leaders serve those they lead by embracing differences. Instead of being threatened by differences, they see differences as a strength. The leadership team in Antioch was filled with five remarkably secure leaders. 1 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, […]
#352 Timothy: Clarifying the Call
June 28, 2023 Timothy had a gifting and calling to the leadership roles in which he served, especially in his leadership of the church at Ephesus. But there were many years of growth and development that preceded this assignment and during that time Timothy was clarifying his calling. Consider these instructions Paul gave to Timothy: […]
Barnabas: Serving with a Team
August 3, 2022 Barnabas was an influential leader in the early church, but he didn’t serve alone. Barnabas served with a team. Nearly every reference to Barnabas includes him with at least one other person. This can be seen most clearly at the church in Antioch where Barnabas was sent to provide leadership after a […]
#321 A Flourishing World: Diversity is Affirmed
April 6, 2022 A second ingredient in a world that flourishes is that diversity is affirmed. God created a world that was beautiful and flourishing…and diverse! So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27, NIV) From the beginning God […]
#312 Serving Leaders ask those who follow: “What should you start doing?”
October 27, 2021 As we saw in the last issue serving leaders examine their own lives to see where they need to start doing new things. But they also look at Paul’s instructions with their followers in mind. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old […]