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Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
Eugene Peterson and the Burning in His Bones
By: Jock Ficken
Let’s take a hard turn in the blogs for a couple weeks. Last week I shared the incredible need to fund the crazy, rapid growth of our international training, principally centered in Africa. It’s amazing that pastors who have nothing and come with nothing present themselves with passion and evangelistic hunger for PLI’s biblical leadership … Continue reading
Do You Need Some New Skills?
By: Jock Ficken
I talked with a pastor a few weeks ago after an event. “I did PLI a decade ago (what’s now Leadership Essentials). Best thing for me and my wife. For the first time in my life I learned how to lead out of my own giftedness and not to try to lead like someone I was … Continue reading
The Real Measure of your Leadership
By: Jock Ficken
What if the real measure of your leadership was not all that was accomplished within your span of influence (count: worship attendance, offerings, buildings and programs built, etc.), but the “successes/successors,” the congregational “heroes,” you mentored? Successors who might shine as bright or brighter than you and might become the future leaders/mentors the church will … Continue reading
Where is God Leading you Next?
By: Jock Ficken
I asked a bunch of younger leaders to do the difficult, to challenge some “landing pattern” pastors and spouses and others who have served so well for so long to not squander what might be their largest legacy in helping the Church set sail toward a new season of great mission vibrancy. This “landing pattern” … Continue reading
Are you in a Landing Pattern?
By: Jock Ficken
Here are two realities: Reality 1: The United States is one of the largest mission fields in the world. Reality 2: Large numbers of pastor-leaders (spouse-leaders and lay-leaders too!) will retire in the next 3… or 5… or 7 years. They’re all flying toward a landing pattern transition. (Or they’ve already landed.) The popular view … Continue reading
Three Reasons to Get Started
By: Jock Ficken
Last week I shared 10 reasons you should invite 10 people to check out 1,000 Young Leaders and Multipli’s Genesis Leader. I want you to think about those 10 people for a moment. Send them a text, or give them a call. Tell them what you see in them. Listen to what they say. Encourage … Continue reading
Leading through Service
By: Jock Ficken
Across PLI, I see leaders who are masters at leading as servants. They invest in relationships. They know it’s the currency with which they will lead long into the future. They live, they speak, they lead with integrity. Depth of faith. Humility. What they say and what they do? They match. Woven through both is … Continue reading
Two Types of Leaders that the Church Needs
By: Jock Ficken
Whether woman or man, baptized or clergy, you most likely align with one of these two: NEW, YOUNG LEADERS You’re new to the leadership thing. Younger. Newer. Short track record. Genuine. You’re eager…or reluctant. You’ve been… Elected. Called. Nominated. Recruited. Convinced. Whatever! (You might be a 1,000 Young Leader) Your eye is likely on the … Continue reading
Stages of Retirement…and What We Can Learn about Leadership
By: Jock Ficken
No matter your age or stage in life—pastor, spouse, esteemed lay leader—I have a short Ted Talk, “The 4 Stages of Retirement,” that I want to recommend. First, a bit of context… Our Reality I’m obviously a big fan of 1,000 Young Leaders and seeing young adults—who know that God is calling them to “something” … Continue reading
Mistake: I Didn’t Say Thank You Enough
By: Jock Ficken
Churches need leaders… Because churches often don’t know what to do, and Because they don’t know how to work together to do it! Agree? And, when leaders don’t know what to do… They seek to gain clarity about who they are…personal vision, calling, gifting, passion, etc. Who are they as a child of God and … Continue reading
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