by Jay Jones | | Personal Development
30-Plus Side Income Ideas for Pastors In today’s church leadership reality, most pastors are either the sole employee of the church or are working bi-vocationally to make ends meet. Pastoring is a full-time job, no matter how you look at it, and the reality for...
by Jay Jones | | Leadership
Should We Follow the Successful Churches? How Survivor Bias Kills Ministries. Are you like me? I mean, are you a pack rat when it comes to collecting resources, ideas, and methods of other ministries? I confess I’m an unabashed student of others who seem to be...
by Jay Jones | | Leadership
5 Tips for Delegating to Volunteers If you need to relieve yourself of some of your workload and know you need to ask unpaid volunteers to do it, let me share a plan for how to recruit them without feeling guilty about it. Whether you’re a paid pastoral leader...
by Jay Jones | | Discipleship
4 Reasons to use Triads in Discipleship Have you heard of triads? They’re small groups of three people who meet regularly to support, encourage, and keep each other accountable. In Dave Logan’s book, “Tribal Leadership”, he suggests that triads...
by Jay Jones | | Leadership
7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started A better understanding of our past helps us ensure a better future. This is just as true for ministry as it is for life. As I reflect on my ministry over the past 30+ years, I realize that there are things I know now that I wish I...
