Your church database/ChMS is one of the most powerful tools you have.

But are you letting it work for you?

Let's talk about it in this episode of Productive Pastor

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Do you find out vision and mission AND THEN live into who you are? What if it's about finding out who you are before you hone who you are?

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How do we find focus? If you can easily answer that for me, I would be really happy. Focus in ministry is something I am really curious about right now. Here are three ways I am working on making it better for my own personal ministry.

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How do you develop leaders in your church? Earlier last year. my internet friend Luke Simmons wrote a FANTASTIC piece on how to both run an elder meeting, but also develop high caliber leaders in the local church. After sharing it with a bunch of folks, I just brought him onto Productive Pastor to talk about the article and the broader idea of developing great leaders in the local church.

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Do you struggle with procrastination? Recently I've heard about the concept of "bike-shedding" a simple way to explain what others call "the law of triviality". We sometimes LOVE spending time on what actually doesn't matter that much.

So let's walk through 5 ways you can stop bike shedding.

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The New Year is the perfect time to get productivity and goal setting shoved down your throat.

Sometimes we love it. Other times, it can be a struggle.

Let me share with you three things you don't need to stress over, but how you might shift that expectation into something more manageable.

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At it's most basic, strategy is about building awareness and planning action. The easiest way to learn strategy is to learn mental models that help you build awareness and plan action. This episode highlights three of my favorite ones.

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How do you understand where you need to grow in ministry productivity? I've identified 4 levels, and they all show growth in the same handful of areas.

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It's nearly the end of the year and I want to take the next few episodes to wrap up the year, look back a bit, and push forward into 2024.

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How well are your sermons planned for 2024? I'm working on mine in the same way I have for years.

Here's how I am doing it.

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