Clues for Christian leaders – How to get more done
Peter Corney
For leaders there’s always more to do than you can keep up with. Here’s some ideas for how to get more done but stay healthy!
1. Work harder. Yes, but there is a limit to this. There is a limit to your energy, your time, your [...]
Leadership and the future
The future of the Church is only as secure as the next generation of leaders it is recruiting and training now.
We do not discover the future and we can’t predict the future with any certainty. We in fact create the future! The future is shaped by us in the present.
We do that [...]
By Peter Corney
I have read a lot of books on leadership both secular and Christian and found useful insights in many of them. (My top ten are listed at the end of this article.) But recently I read a study of major leaders of the 20th C. “Leading Minds -An Anatomy of Leadership” by Howard [...]
By Peter Corney
(This was originally delivered as an address to the teaching staff chapel service at Trinity Grammar School Kew in Melbourne in 2010)
During the American civil war and the battle to emancipate the slaves, the then U.S President Abraham Lincoln said he “often felt like a man standing on a burning platform.”
Many [...]
by Peter Corney
There is no effective leadership without power. By power I mean the ability to influence people organizations and structures, the ability to effect change. I will call this ‘real power.’ Such power can be acquired and used legitimately or illegitimately. Formal authority and power are connected but power can be exercised without formal [...]
An exercise for a church staff retreat or training day.
If you lead a church with a staff team the following could be a very useful basis for a staff retreat or training day.
One of the problems that can develop when staff are appointed to develop particular areas of ministry like youth or children’s ministry is [...]
Chapter Eight: Leaders and Teams
By Peter Corney
(This is a free chapter from the new book A Passion for Leadership, Insights from Arrow Australia Leadership Team, edited by Peter Corney and Evonne Paddison. Coauthors include: Karl Faase, Stephen Hale, Evonne Paddison, Ian Harper, Sandy Jones, Graham Johnston and Stephen Abbott. It is published here under the [...]
By Peter Corney
The church is a voluntary society, a ‘community of volunteers’, if you like. Without volunteers almost everything we do would grind to a halt. All those rosters and committees and leadership of groups and ministries would cease. Most parachurch organisations live or die on the strength of their volunteer base.
But we live in [...]
By Peter Corney
There is sometimes a real tension between Biblical theology and some of the pragmatics promoted by proponents of Church growth. But there can also be a false dichotomy created between them, particularly by those who do not understand the difference between ministry and leadership.(1) It is now well established that to plant a [...]
By Peter Corney
In part one of these two articles I made the point that while we are in a difficult environment for growing Churches there are healthy growing congregations out there. It is only common sense that Christian leaders should be studying them to identify what makes them effective.
The following are the principles and practices [...]
