A Flourishing Culture: Team Synergy
Issue #418, March 11, 2026 Every organization rises or falls on the strength of its teams. When leaders intentionally build teams with synergy, people flourish and remarkable outcomes are achieved. Jesus understood this principle well and carefully and prayerfully built a team that would eventually change the world. 13 Jesus went up on a mountainside and […]
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 […]
#376 It’s None of Your Business: Surrender it
June 19, 2024 Leaders influence and impact the realm where they have authority. This may be at home, in their office or department, in the church they lead or in the business they operate. They naturally feel a sense of ownership of that entity, especially if they founded the organization or business*. But serving leaders […]
#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, […]
# 359 Timothy: Connecting Across Generations
October 4, 2023 One of the marks of Timothy’s great leadership was his ability to connect with people from different generations. Consider these instructions from Paul: 1Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, 2older women as mothers, and younger women as […]
#333 Barnabas: Serving with Humility
September 14, 2022 There’s not a specific verse in scripture that talks about the humility of Barnabas, but there is plenty of evidence that he served with deep humility. First, while he was a prominent figure in the life of the church, when the people chose the first deacons, his name was not included (see […]
#332 Barnabas: Serving with Availability
August 31, 2022 One of the greatest ways Barnabas served the early church was simply being available. Several times his story includes a situation where he was sent by the church leaders to fulfill a specific mission. He was first sent by the apostles to the new church in Antioch. News of this reached […]