Scott Gress

There’s a leadership virus going on in churches. It spreads some damagingly false information about what leadership is and what leadership does. The powerful pathogen goes like this: I’m afraid of coming across as demanding or controlling. What does this

“Of course! I know what I’m doing! I’m doing everything I should be doing. In fact I’m doing far more than I should be doing! I wish I could do more.” What do you see happening around you? “If I’m

…you talk too much. Then when you do talk you don’t speak honestly and directly about what’s going on, where you want to go and how you hope to get there. The truth is that many leaders talk too much.

If…you are doing it alone. In other words, if you are calling all the shots and making all the important decisions yourself and if you do not involve others in the process of making those decisions. If that is you, then

…If you rely on doing it from your office or from behind your screen. Granted, social media is powerful, where email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc can have a huge impact. But how are you using these means as an excuse

IF you have the attitude that “we can do it and you can help.” The “we” being the church staff and the “you” being the church members. This means that the staff run the programming and significant ministry and the

Did you go to freshman orientation? New job orientation? There are a lot of places and jobs and associations which require some kind of orientation. But what kind of orientation do we do in the church? New member catechism classes.

Robert D. Putnam in his influential study, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, writes that only in high-trust environments can leaders recruit the eager support they need to achieve worthy goals. So how much do you trust