Oct 7, 2026
Culture is difficult to define but easy to feel … and it’s hard to overestimate the role culture plays in your team’s health and efficiency.
A healthy culture can help turbocharge your vision and make progress toward the calling that God has for your church. But an unhealthy team culture will actually erode your...
Sep 30, 2026
The next time that you walk into your church lobby, pretend it's your very first time there.
What does the room tell you about your church? Because it's telling people something. The question is whether it's the story that you meant to tell.
Sean got the chance to sit down with Phil Taylor from PlainJoe Studios. Phil...
Sep 23, 2026
People issues, especially people changes, can
be incredibly divisive in a church.
Suddenly, a staff member people love is no longer on the platform,
and nobody’s really sure why.
Church leaders have had months to process the change, but the congregation and staff have to catch up in one conversation...
Sep 16, 2026
You've got a structure on paper. You have clean reporting lanes, ownership and a healthy span of care.
But the boxes that make up each role are still empty.
How do you determine who goes in which seat? How do you know if someone has the leadership capacity a role requires? What happens when a role grows past the...
Sep 9, 2026
Most churches build structure without ever naming what they're structuring around.
Pastors want good structure for really good reasons. They want communication to work. They want to catch problems before they become a crisis. They want to know nothing’s falling through the cracks. And honestly, most of them want...