3 Essentials in Christian Leadership Development
Effective leadership development combines training, experiences, and coaching.
Eric Geiger
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3 Coordination Killers that Can Kill Your Leadership
A lack of coordination can destroy a team’s effectiveness. A lack of coordination across multiple areas can greatly harm a leader’s credibility.
Eric Geiger
Five Ways Leaders Lose Credibility
The most important leadership characteristic is credibility. Here are five common ways leaders lose their credibility.
Eric Geiger
Leaders—Go Forth and Die
True leaders are servants who die to themselves so others may flourish. True leaders go forth not for themselves but for others. If the foundation of leadership is “go forth and die,” no one should outpace the Church in developing and deploying leaders. Here are two reasons that the Church should develop leaders who “go forth and die.” [...]
Eric Geiger
3 Characteristics of a Kingdom Disciple
The primary calling of pastors and leaders in the Church is to lead people to become the type of disciples Christ has called them to be. And this means that ministry leaders must model what it means to be disciples.
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3 Ways to Ensure Your Message Is Not Heard
The most important characteristic in effective communication and effective leadership is credibility. Just as people are unable to follow a leader they cannot believe or trust, a message will not be heard when it is delivered by someone who lacks credibility.
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6 Essential Identities of a Ministry Leader
As God’s people, our activity must be rooted in the identity He has graciously given us. Eric writes about six essential identities a ministry leader must have.
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Don’t Be a Perpetual 300-foot Leader
Leaders must execute, must drop into details at times, and must be connected to the work, but leaders must also rise above the daily grind.
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4 Failings of the 60,000-foot Leader
It is important for leaders to go to 30,000 feet. Go there. Just don’t live at 60,000. It is dangerous that high.
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A Tale of Two Mars Hills
Paul spoke to Athenians from Mars Hill, a prominent outcropping where philosophers “would would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new” (Acts 17:21). He faced the same kinds of unbelief, doubt, and “advanced thought” that the church faces today. Eric draws a stark comparison between two other Mars Hills.
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