Leaders who are curious about new ideas will lead us into the future.
By Ryan Flanders | Leadership
Leaders who are curious about new ideas will lead us into the future. Curiosity as a child is a fantastic thing. Last night at dinner, our family question was, “what is your earliest memory as a child.” One of the kids said they remembered being born, which was frightening and funny at the same time. […]
How to Choose One Wildly Important Goal for your Church
By Ryan Flanders | Leadership•Revitalization
Do you remember the last time you launched an initiative, and it died? It may have been an outreach ministry, a new discipleship initiative, or a shepherding routine, but the result was the same. Maybe it was a quick and sudden death or dragged out over time until no one realized the thing had died. […]
April Fools
By Ryan Flanders | Uncategorized
Your Top Ten List on How to Be Fool on April 1st This morning I woke up early and began thinking of some perfect practical jokes for the 1st of April. I thought of covering the sensor on the remote control with a sticker or putting google eyes on every item in the fridge. I […]
What Wanda Vision and the Church have in Common
By Ryan Flanders | Revitalization
The wildly popular Marvel Universe launched a short series of shows called Wanda Vision earlier this year. You may not understand this blog entirely if you don’t know these characters’ backstories from the Avengers films, but I think you will get the idea. In the series Wanda Vision, Wanda, the main character, is still grieving […]
Response-Ability
By Ryan Flanders | Leadership
Response-Ability, Avoiding the Victim Mindset One of the top life-changing disciplines that I worked into my life is that I can choose my response to a situation 100% of the time. Yes, every single time. I had a false belief that my circumstances determined my reaction and feelings. Most of us tend to pick […]
Leveraging the Power of Story in Your Ministry
By Ryan Flanders | Blog•Leadership
Leveraging the Power of Story in your ministry I like to think in the realm of numbers. I am not sure if that is a guy thing or what? Stories are hard for me to wrap my brain around. They take too long to unfold and often could have been stripped down to a […]
The Day I took Jesus out of the Church
By Ryan Flanders | Revitalization
The Day I took Jesus out of the Church. Taking Jesus out of the church Is not something that I would have ever expected I would do. After all, I loved Jesus, or at least thought I did. I came to know Him as a teenager, followed Him to Bible College and Seminary, and desired […]
4 benefits of bi-vocational and co-vocational ministry
By Ryan Flanders | bivo covo ministry
4 benefits of bi-vocational and co-vocational ministry Most ministries worldwide are led by bi-vocational or co-vocational pastors and leaders. Think about that for a minute. It has been a modern-day phenomenon in America over the last 100 years to think of most ministries or at least the ideal ministry having a “full-time” pastor or leader. […]