Leadership Challenges
Ministry leaders regularly encounter daunting challenges that ensnare and hinder their efforts.
WITHIN OUR CHURCHES…
...we experience stagnation and decline
...our people have lost their passion and commitment
...our relationships are characterized by strife and factions
...our leadership team struggles to advance kingdom work
...our impact in the community with the gospel is almost non-existent
WITHIN OURSELVES…
...we labor under false motivations
...we experience confusing distractions and setbacks
...we become overworked and heavily burdened
...we stumble in our personal walk with God
...we journey toward hopelessness and burnout
In all this the cause of Christ is hindered and God is not glorified.
This is not leadership as God intended.
Becoming a Leader Who Honors God
Being an effective, God-honoring leader—the kind of leader that God desires us to be—doesn’t occur through birth, formal education, or networking. It’s not a result of serendipity, circumstances, or who you know. Neither a sheet of paper on the wall nor a stack of books on the shelf is determinative, nor is natural ability or personal accomplishment.
God-honoring leaders and effective kingdom-focused leadership teams don’t just come out of nowhere.
They are formed through a deliberate, life-long process: giving concerted attention to motivations, character, call, roles, and relationships. It requires faithfulness to spiritual disciplines that reinforce biblical patterns in these essential areas of life and ministry. Such enduring Spirit-led transformation is best accomplished with the help of others: people able to provide practical side-by-side training, encouragement, mentoring, and exhortation.
Essentials of Ministry Leadership
“...they will be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.” - Isaiah 61:3b
At IBL, we are burdened to serve side-by-side with God’s leaders, to have enduring, Christ-honoring impact in their lives and ministries.
Services
TRAINING
Practical, discussion-focused seminars on the real-world issues faced by leaders in their lives and ministries.
COACHING
One-on-one coaching to pastors and ministry leaders seeking to advance in their practice of biblical leadership.
CONSULTING
Side-by-side consulting with leadership teams to restore vitality, strengthen unity and develop missional focus.
COUNSELING
Confidential, biblical counsel for individual men, women & couples facing a period of significant personal struggle.
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