leadership
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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…
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The Triperspectival Content of Biblical Leadership
A leader instructs the head, shepherds the heart, and coaches the hands, which means teaching doctrine, forming character, and giving practical steps toward obedience. Every leader has a bent toward one of the three. The biblical…
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Meeting People Where They Are
Understanding how to speak God’s word into a particular person’s circumstances is what distinguishes a visionary from a biblical leader. Jesus does it with the Samaritan woman in John 4, and doing it in American culture…
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Where Jesus Wants Us To Go
The second half of the definition comes first, because where Jesus wants people to go is what grounds everything else. That destination is the Great Commission, the model is the way Jesus invested in the first…
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What is Biblical Leadership?
Biblical leadership is meeting someone where they are, and taking them where Jesus wants them to go. That definition came out of a seminary assignment and has held up across discipleship, leadership development, and organizational leadership…
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Institutionalizing the Change to Missional Communities
The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities. Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities. This series of posts will help…
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Building on the Change to Missional Communities
The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities. Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities. This series of posts will help…
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Celebrating Wins in the Transition to Missional Community
The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities. Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities. This series of posts will help…
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Empowering Others to Act in Missional Communities
The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities. Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities. This series of posts will help…
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Communicating the Vision for Missional Communities
The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities. Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities. This series of posts will help…
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Crafting a Vision for Missional Communities
The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities. Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities. This series of posts will help…
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Forming a Strategic Team to Lead Transition
The Austin Stone didn’t begin as a church committed to missional communities. Through several years, we have transitioned our church from a traditional community/small group model to our current model of missional communities. This series of posts will help…