Church leaders, have you accidentally stopped leading?

Phil Moon  |  Features  |  the pastor's toolkit
Date posted:  6 Jun 2025
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Church leaders, have you accidentally stopped leading?

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When church leaders get busy, or just simply older, it’s very easy for some leadership qualities - and the things leaders are supposed to actually do - to fall by the wayside.

That doesn’t help our leadership, nor does it help those we lead. Here are seven leadership qualities that can so easily drop off the radar:

  1. Leaders think ahead
    But when you get over-busy or over-tired, this can get overlooked. So the preaching plan comes out late, together with the agenda for the church meeting - and you completely forgot to fix a date for the "away day". Life becomes a succession of mini crises. How about setting aside 20 minutes to press the pause button, and think a month ahead, and three months ahead?
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