By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission (mscottboren.org) , Twitter@mscottboren The degree to which we listen to each other will be the degree to which we experience the presence of Jesus in the midst of our groups. To listen to one another requires...
By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission (www.mscottboren.org), Twitter@mscottboren Show Interest in People’s Interests Years ago, I read the book How to Win Friends and Influence People. One thing stood out to me. Dale Carnegie writes about how he...
By Scott Boren, For more on Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Leadership, visit Scott’s blog: https://thejesuscafe.wordpress.com Yesterday, in Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the danger of having too many visions in a single church. Competing ministries, each...
By Scott Boren, For more on Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Leadership, visit Scott’s blog: https://thejesuscafe.wordpress.com. “Where there are two visions, there is division.” These words from Dion Robert, pastor of the 150,000-member Works and Mission Baptist...
By Scott Boren, For more on Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Leadership, visit Scott’s blog: https://thejesuscafe.wordpress.com Leading a small group, spiritual leadership, is about learning how to respond to the steps of the way of God. This is a crooked path, as I...