Center for Church Communication board members Brad Abare and Phil Cooke recently spoke with Outreach magazine about personality driven churches. The short Q&A covers leadership issues for churches that rely too heavily on a single personality.
“Pastors need to do a better job of training their leaders, blessing them, and then getting out of the way. That’s the single-biggest problem I see in churches today.” -Phil Cooke
“If you couldn’t hang it all up today and be confident everything would continue, that’s a warning sign.” -Brad Abare
Read the whole interview.
Erik White
March 10, 2011
I like this blog but a word of advice, it’s a little annoying when you keep addressing Brad Abare in third person along with the nifty presentational title before the name. I mean really? I can see if you were as big as Apple but come on, it’s a church marketing blog for crying out loud. It also reads with a sense of narcism and ego. I know this might sound like i’m being a jerk but I enjoy reading this blog. I just think the intro’s are a little lame.
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Kevin D. Hendricks
March 11, 2011
Erik, are you talking about my post or the Outreach article?
Sorry you think we’re being egotistical, but I think assuming everyone knows who Brad and Phil are is a little more egotistical. This is just a church marketing blog and Brad and Phil aren’t household names–so we think it helps to say who they are.