Innovative Church Community

For those who missed or want to review our ICC session with Gary Combs from January 2012: http://vimeo.com/35110543

Pastor Steve Davis of Spout Springs Church has a brand new ebook out on Amazon.  Transform(180) is a devotional ebook we are all bound to love (despite the fact that many of us know the author!).  Click here to purchase your Kindle version on Amazon. Be reminded, Kindle Readers work on almost all computers, smart phones and tablets. [...]

In light of today’s session with Bob Felts on the topic of Leadership and Sex, this list of accountability questions seems appropriate.  These are taken from Gene Getz’s book “Elders and Leaders.”  Every man, especially a leader in the church, needs an accountability partner or group.  Often, when starting an accountability group or relationship, we don’t [...]

Want to affair proof your marriage and ministry? Click out this article from Ron Edmondson:
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Based on the topic of our upcoming ICC Learning Community in December, I thought a link to this article that just came to my inbox might be appropriate:

Why a Healthy Sex Life Makes You A Better Leader

Do you know the real, underlying values at your church? If you attended our last ICC session in Burlington, you heard  Angie Ward of  The Leadership Lab talk about her doctoral work on the topic of Church Organizational Culture (COC for short). COC is the system of shared beliefs, assumptions and operational values that impact how your church [...]

Chances are, you have a church website.  And, I presume, you want people who are searching for a new church home to find your church website if they do a search online.  So what happens when someone in your community is searching for churches in your area?  Does your church website show up?  Or is it [...]

On August 8th, the ICC gathered at Wilson Community Church in Wilson, NC.  Pastor Gary Combs led the session he titled, “Learnings From My Top Ten Leadership Mistakes.”  Pastor Gary shared with transparency as he uncovered how he and WCC grew as church through some of his leadership mistakes in 19 years as a church [...]

For those of you who were a part of our March ICC Learning Community, here are the leadership style descriptions Bud referenced in his session: Telling (Directive) When a task is hard, and those performing it are inexperienced or have low commitment or maturity levels, it is necessary to give instructions as to how the task [...]