by Jay Jones | | Leadership
Should We Follow the Successful Churches? How Survivor Bias Kills Ministries. Are you like me? I mean, are you a pack rat when it comes to collecting resources, ideas, and methods of other ministries? I confess I’m an unabashed student of others who seem to be...
by Jay Jones | | Leadership
5 Tips for Delegating to Volunteers If you need to relieve yourself of some of your workload and know you need to ask unpaid volunteers to do it, let me share a plan for how to recruit them without feeling guilty about it. Whether you’re a paid pastoral leader...
by Jay Jones | | Leadership
7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started A better understanding of our past helps us ensure a better future. This is just as true for ministry as it is for life. As I reflect on my ministry over the past 30+ years, I realize that there are things I know now that I wish I...
by Jay Jones | | Leadership
7 Secrets to Practicing the Presence of God So, you’ve been craving a deeper relationship with Jesus, but seem to keep falling short? Join the masses of ministers who have also struggled with this. The good news is, you don’t have to stay in that club. I...
by Jay Jones | | Leadership
How Leaders Find Strength in Valleys Even as ministry leaders, we can find ourselves walking through valleys and wondering if there are any mountain tops ahead for us. Sometimes we can even question whether there’s hope in our valley. It might just be that you are...
by Jay Jones | | Leadership
Repairing the Breach – An Appeal To Our Present Generations Each generation of ministers has its strengths, weaknesses, and persepctive of both themselves and the others they labor with. While we can feel isolated from, and misunderstood by generations other...
