Category: austin stone
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Assessing Candidates – Character
Over the past few weeks, I’ve focused on staffing in the local church. This series will focus primarily on assessing candidates who emerge for potential roles on your team. There are four primary areas of assessment that are crucial in assessing someone for a position on our staff: Calling Character Capacity/Competency Culture/Compatibility This series will…
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Assessing Candidates – Calling
Over the past few weeks, I’ve focused on staffing in the local church. This series will focus primarily on assessing candidates who emerge for potential roles on your team. There are four primary areas of assessment that are crucial in assessing someone for a position on our staff: Calling Character Capacity/Competency Culture/Compatibility This series will…
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Verge 2014
This week we begin our yearly Verge Conference at The Austin Stone. For me, it is a chance to process through the past year as we pursue Christ and His mission, and connect with others who are doing the same. If you are joining us in Austin, I’d love to connect with you! You can…
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Recruiting Candidates
After understanding your core philosophical convictions, building a healthy staff team requires an interview and hiring process. At The Austin Stone, we have a process of candidacy, interviewing, assessment and hiring: Do We Need To Hire? What Role Are You Trying To Fill? Identifying Candidates for Your Team Recruiting Candidates for Your Team I pray these posts…
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Identifying Candidates
After understanding your core philosophical convictions, building a healthy staff team requires an interview and hiring process. At The Austin Stone, we have a process of candidacy, interviewing, assessment and hiring: Do We Need To Hire? What Role Are You Trying To Fill? Identifying Candidates for Your Team Recruiting Candidates for Your Team I pray these posts…
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Understanding the Position
As I’ve served in the role of Executive Pastor for the past two years, one of the key responsibilities I have is building a staff team. With the help of Kevin Peck and Dave Barrett, I’ve developed a pretty thorough philosophy and process of staff hiring. The following posts will develop these ideas: Philosophical Considerations for Staffing Making…
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The Basic Process of Hiring
As I’ve served in the role of Executive Pastor for the past two years, one of the key responsibilities I have is building a staff team. With the help of Kevin Peck and Dave Barrett, I’ve developed a pretty thorough philosophy and process of staff hiring. The following posts will develop these ideas: Philosophical Considerations for Staffing Making…
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Making Disciples is The Job
As I’ve served in the role of Executive Pastor for the past two years, one of the key responsibilities I have is building a staff team. With the help of Kevin Peck and Dave Barrett, I’ve developed a pretty thorough philosophy and process of staff hiring. The following posts will develop these ideas: Philosophical Considerations for Staffing Making…
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Building a Staff Team
As I’ve served in the role of Executive Pastor for the past two years, one of the key responsibilities I have is building a staff team. With the help of Kevin Peck and Dave Barrett, I’ve developed a pretty thorough philosophy and process of staff hiring. The following posts will develop these ideas: Philosophical Considerations…
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A Primer on Church Discipline
Much of what I have written here in the past focuses on the formative work of discipline in the church – discipleship. Within Scripture, however, we also find another form of corrective discipline, commonly called “church discipline”. This series forms the basics for a primer I wrote for The Austin Stone to understand church discipline.…
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Where Are They Now?
Recently I had the honor of speaking at the Verge conference in Chicago and I though I would share it as a series on the blog here. Over the last 7 years, we have been in the process of transitioning to missional communities, and we’ve made plenty of mistakes along the way. The title of this…