Category: leadership
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The Deadline Dilemma in Ministry
Ministry tends to explain its fluid deadlines as prioritizing people over projects. I wonder whether it is less about prioritizing people and more about avoiding accountability, because deadlines force clarity and reveal priorities, and that kind of exposure is uncomfortable.
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Thinking Out Loud: Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking ceremonies have always struck me as funny, a circle of people in nice suits and hard hats shoveling a bit of dirt. But when we launched the Greater Austin Mission Society it was a good meeting and not much else, and I found I still wanted some way to mark it.
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2025 Theme: Patience and Presence
My two words for 2025 are patience and presence, and both cut against how I usually operate, because I tend to run with a pretty high motor. Patience is not passivity, it is an active trust in God’s sovereignty, and presence rather than activity is often where transformation begins.
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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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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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Groups Matter Initiative
Regardless of how you think groups ought to be practiced in the local church, almost everyone would agree that groups matter. In the context of smaller communities, people are known, loved, taught, challenged and led towards obedience to Jesus. I am passionately convinced of the missional community strategy, but love groups in all shapes and…