Welcome
This website is intended to be a companion resource to the book, Equipped for Every Good Work.
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Train the Trainer Workshop for Equipped for Every Good Work
The following is an outline for a "train the trainer" workshop. This event is designed to equip facilitators to lead the process for one another's churches.
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Making the Most of the Time: Finding and Maintaining Balance
Time is a gift, filled with potential. Balancing our work and relationships, our activities and our rest, is an act of Christian stewardship.
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The Power of Questions
When asked to name the most critical need in any organization — including the church — one answer regularly given is "good communication," which includes the ability to ask good questions. Insightful, incisive questions can help focus people's thinking and draw them together in transformative dialogue.
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Listening to Teach, Speaking to Learn
A critically important work for leaders in local congregations is to learn to listen. There is healing in listening. There is connection and community in listening. And there is learning in listening.
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Leading by Not Doing: A Reflection on Wesley's Instruction to "Do No Harm"
Good leadership is commonly defined by the things we do — by our skills and abilities and accomplishments. Rarely do we reflect on what not to do as leaders. Although it is important to engage in good activities, it may be even more important to refrain from bad actions.
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New Group Process Documentation (in Excel)
Our efforts to improve the Equipped process continue. We hope you will find the following ideas and instructions helpful and easy to use.
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Equipped for Every Good Work Process Overview
Equipped for Every Good Work employs four tools that help individuals discover and understand their gifts, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that influence their ability to live as Christian disciples and to lead within a community of faith.
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Leadership Interaction Styles and Paint Cans?
It is easy to see how the different leadership styles might cause tension and conflict when mixed together. Our tendency is to settle on our way as the "right" way.
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Spiritual Gifts — Primacy, Not Priority
Paul does not write to prioritize spiritual gifts, but to explain the order in which they were revealed and employed in the church at Corinth.
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What Gifts?
Over the years, my thinking around spiritual giftedness has evolved in one essential and significant way: Almost all the early spiritual gifts materials held the institutional church at the center. In other words, we are gifted to support the church. What I have come to realize is that we are not gifted because of the church; rather, the church exists because we are gifted.
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