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The Art and Science of Dela-gation

A small handful of leadership behaviors disproportionately affect and accelerate rapid movement growth. Without question, one of the most crucial qualities of effective leaders lies in their willingness and ability to delegate well. Delegation requires those of us who lead others to constantly release key aspects of our work to the next generation of volunteers, […]

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John Mott on Establishing Movements

This is a long post, and well worth our time to digest. John Mott, global Christian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for developing volunteer Protestant movements, distills the essence of Christian movement-building for us. If you feel lost in emerging- missional- organic- apostolic- leader/follower-speak, Mott will refresh you. LESSONS I […]

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2008 Preflections: Two Words

I know I’m 11 days late in posting an inspiring New Years blog like everyone else. It’s not that I haven’t been thinking, praying and wrestling with what, no who, I want to be at the end of this year. Oddly enough, traveling to LA, Edmonton, and Denver to spend time with 3,000 students in […]