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Simple Discipleship Virtual Book Tour - Review #1 by Jess Bousa

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 1 week ago:     Simple Discipleship 2009 Tom Cocklereece knows how to keep it simple! In his recently released b … more →

Tags: Change Management, Church Organizational Development, coaching, Discipleship, Simple Discipleship, Benefits of Coaching, Church Innovation, church leadership, Church Management

Creating a Type III Church7 comments

doroteos2 wrote 4 months ago: In college, I learned an incredibly important lesson about problem solving and planning.  It involve … more →

Tags: church leadership, Critical Thinking, The United Methodist Church

#10 The Twelve Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Church: What is Our Process for Resolving Conflict?

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 4 months ago: Leadership When I posted the introduction article to this series, I titled #10 as “What is our … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, Change Management, church conflict, church leadership, Church Management, Conflict Management, Discipleship, mediation, Ministry in times of crisis

#7 The Twelve Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Church: What Do We Believe?1 comment

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 6 months ago: Leadership We live at a time of superficiality in virtually every arena of life today from politics … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, baptist church decline, Change Management, Church Decline, church leadership, Church Management, Church Organizational Development, Discipleship, Doctrinal Beliefs

Things About To Become Extinct In Church?1 comment

pastorron7 wrote 6 months ago:   I recently read 24 Things About To Become Extinct (Click here).  The link will explain why these t … more →

Tags: church

The Twelve Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Church: #5 What Is Our Plan?2 comments

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 7 months ago: Many church and ministry leaders are familiar with the usually dreaded process of developing a strat … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, baptist church decline, Change Management, Church Decline, church leadership, Church Management, Church Organizational Development, Church Strategy Planning, Discipleship

The Twelve Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Church: #4 What are Our Results?5 comments

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 7 months ago:     Leadership I live in Cobb County Georgia, USA, where last week I looked at the front page of my … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, baptist church decline, Change Management, Church Decline, church leadership, Church Management, Church Organizational Development, Church Strategy Planning, Discipleship

#3 What Does Your “Customer” Value?

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 7 months ago: Leadership Question #3 in The Twelve Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Church is … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, Change Management, Church Organizational Development, Discipleship, baptist church decline, Spiritual Growth, church leadership, Ministry & Leadership, turnaround churches

The Twelve Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask about Your Church: Who Is Our “Customer?”1 comment

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 8 months ago:   Leadership Who is our customer? There does not seem to be a great word to describe the people targ … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, Change Management, Church Organizational Development, Missional Church, Discipleship, Church Decline, baptist church decline, church leadership, Ministry in times of crisis

The Twelve Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask about Your Church: What is Our Mission?

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 8 months ago: Leadership What is the mission of your church? It is such a simple question, but seemingly perplexin … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, Change Management, Church Organizational Development, baptist church decline, Great Commission, church leadership, Church Management, turnaround churches, Prime Directive of the Church

Why Do We Need Self-Assessments?

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 8 months ago: Leadership I led a funeral service last week in which I had been granted the use of the Bible belong … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, Change Management, Church Organizational Development, leadership, Discipleship, baptist church decline, Spiritual Growth, church leadership, Ministry in times of crisis

More Commandments for Church Failure2 comments

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 9 months ago: Leadership My blog series Ten Commandments for Church Failure has been a big success. From the time … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, Church Organizational Development, Missional Church, Discipleship, church leadership, Church Management, Ministry & Leadership, turnaround churches, emergent church

Ten Commandments for Church Failure: #8 Thou shalt love thy bureaucracy.

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 10 months ago: Leadership “This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and N … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, Change Management, Church Organizational Development, baptist church decline, church leadership, Church Management, turnaround churches, Church Innovation, church bureaucracy

Ten Commandments for Church Failure: #7-Thou shalt put all thy faith in every “new thing” that appears to work in another church.

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 10 months ago: Leadership In 1995, a localized spiritual awakening occurred in Brownwood, Texas and the instrument … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, spiritual formation, Holy Spirit, church leadership, Church Management, Church Innovation, Church Consulting

Ten Commandments for Church Failure: #5- Thou Shalt Not Be Accountable9 comments

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 11 months ago:   Leadership Accountability gets a bum rap today in society as well as in the church. The subject re … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, leadership, church leadership, Church Management, Legal Issues and the Church, Church Accountability, Integrity

Ten Commandments for Church Failure6 comments

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 1 year ago: New SD Logo What I offer are not The Ten Commandments for Church Failure, but indeed if your church … more →

Tags: Simple Discipleship, Change Management, Church Organizational Development, Missional Church, Discipleship, baptist church decline, Spiritual Foundations, church leadership, Church Management

Change... The Seed of the Future1 comment

pastorshelper wrote 1 year ago: Wouldn’t it be nice to find one “right” way to do things, then stick with that for … more →

Tags: Pastoral, church, change

LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION

Dr. Tom Cocklereece wrote 1 year ago: Leadership I don’t know about you but I’m feeling rather stressed these days by the cons … more →

Tags: Discipleship, Simple Discipleship, Church Management, Church Organizational Development, leadership, Ministry & Leadership, simple church

Churches that move from surviving to thriving2 comments

Chuck Warnock wrote 1 year ago: We’re in a transition in our church some 4 years after my arrival as pastor.  Our congregation … more →

Tags: Congregation, Missional Church, Trends, Church as Abbey, leadership, church, church transition, church longrange planning, from surviving to thriving


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