Articles about the Relationship Model™

How to Select the Right Pastor Part 2

Can you recall the last time your congregation called a pastor?  Remember the process?  Did you wish you had more information so that you could make an more informed decision?  If your situation was like many others, you had some names from the church headquarters.  Some individuals brought forward some names of pastors they knew […]

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How to Select the Right Pastor

Congregations are free within the authority that God gives to select the pastor that will be most likely to meet the unique needs of a unique congregation.  In fact, congregations also have the responsibility, not merely the freedom, to make a careful selection.  The notion that God calls a pastor to a specific congregation, apart […]

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How to be a Board Member

“How to be a Board Member” is one of the most common phrases that volunteers use in Internet searches to learn about board governance.  In thinking about a response to that search it occurred to me that the best way to respond was to provide a simple ten-statement Code of Conduct for board members. These […]

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How Can We Build Trust?

Question:  There doesn’t seem to be much trust in our organization right now.  Our CEO says that we should be more trusting of each other, but it sounds more like a demand than a request.  What is going wrong?  How can we build trust in our organization?  We’re paralyzed without it.  People are miserable and […]

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How Boards Accumulate Wisdom

Imagine that your board is having a discussion about an issue that has come up once before some years ago. Several of the board members remember it, but they can’t quite remember what was decided. They want to follow whatever precedent was set back then. Someone suggests a search of the minutes, but no one […]

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Great Expectations

Question:  I chair a board that meets monthly.  The problem we are having is that the attendance at board meetings is irregular.  Because of their inconsistent attendance some of our directors don’t have full awareness of what decisions we have made and why we have made them.  What can I do to get board members […]

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What is governance?

Governance is Like Parenthood This is addressed to the 3.3 million of you who have asked search engines, “What is governance?’” Here’s the best answer I can give you. Imagine that you are a young child again.  School is out for the day.  You’ve been home, but now you are outside playing with your friends.  […]

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Forgive and Forget

Forgive and Forget.  No, Forgive and Reconcile Imagine that time that someone wronged you at work.  Although the person never apologized or even acknowledged his or her wrongdoing, you had to struggle through your feelings to the point where you were able to forgive.  Of course, you couldn’t tell the offender that you forgave, because […]

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What do you Expect from a Pastor?

Imagine that conversation you had with an unhappy member of the congregation about the pastor’s performance.  You heard a litany of complaints about what the pastor wasn’t doing.  There were references to the preaching, the visitation program, the office hours, something the pastor said and a lot about what the pastor doesn’t do.  There seemed […]

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Executive Committee – Yes or No

Executive Committee – Yes or No Have you ever had the experience as a member of an Executive Committee of discussing the board meeting agenda before the meeting of the full board?  Then when the board meets, you discuss it all again with but this time with more people.  Did you ever ask what advantage […]

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