Larry Osborne

As you gather your team, train them to lead along with you.

These malpractices will destroy your credibility.

5 questions to ask before adding new leaders

4 sports that parallel the growing-church experience.

Minimize the conflict with these 4 steps.

Doing things differently can pay off.

What happens when small groups use Sunday’s message as their conversation piece.

Three Principles to make your church board thrive.

The benefits of developing a preaching team, and how one church is seeing it work

Does diversity in the church work?

Create a healthy team to grow a healthy church.

Track, golf, basketball, and football teams require very different skills. So does leadership of different size churches.

How to do what’s needed, yet keep the pressure
low.

Keeping the process positive, not poisonous.

The benefits of regularly sharing the pulpit, and how one church is seeing it work.

Can problem personalities be checked before they become board nominees?

Is the pastor the board’s chaplain, leader, or employee?

How pastors can get honest feedback without getting ambushed.

Steps to take—before you take a major step.

Arriving at an equitable pay package needn’t raise hackles or fears.

Familiar practices and assumptions may be the greatest obstacles to an effective church board.