Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 9, 2013

In the past few years, as a pastor and through my blog, I have had the occasion to minister to some very broken people. Many of those have been pastors or ministers who once had thriving work they were doing for God, but, whether by a personal failure or through circumstances beyond their control, they are no longer serving. It breaks my heart. One resource I saw recently showed that 1,500 pastors leave the ministry each month in America.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 8, 2013

Almost on a weekly basis I hear from a young pastor who wants to grow as a leader. He feels the pressure placed upon him and knows that others are looking to him to steer the church on a healthy course. Most of these leaders are humble, knowing that ultimately Christ is the head of the church. What they also know is that there are expectations of their position, decisions that have to be made which are not clearly defined in Scripture, and that seminary didn’t train them to make.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 10, 2013

In years of studying leadership, both in the business world and in ministry, I’ve seen some consistent traps that get in the way of a leader’s success. I’m calling them pitfalls. Here are 7 pitfalls of leadership: Pride – When a leader ever feels he or she has all the answers…watch out! Pride comes before the fall. Great leaders remain humble, knowing they didn’t get where they are on their own nor will they stay there without the help of others.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2013

Sometimes we complicate things in leadership. Take reproducing leaders, for example. In every church I’ve been in, people want to reproduce leaders, but few think they know how. Yet, in my opinion, it may be one of the easier leadership issues to solve. The fact is that there are almost always leaders to be found if one is looking. The key is having a strategy of leadership reproduction in place and actually working it.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 7, 2013

When I was in the retail business, I once had an employee who went through a period…one that lasted several weeks, where she was rude to customers. Of course, in retail, the way. She had been a good employee, but something changed. Of course, in retail, the way you treat customers often determines whether or not they return. I wrote in THIS POST about when a business can give bad service, but that’s the exception, not the rule.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 6, 2013

Illustration One: “Make yourself an ark of gofer wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and outside. And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him. (Genesis 6:14, 22 HCSB). Illustration Two: The Lord said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 5, 2013

I strive to be a continual learner. I learned a few things last year. Here are 12 of them: Small things matter most in making change. Shower gel, shampoo and conditioner in one. Who knew? Changed my gym shower life. (Apparently my wife and boys did but they never let me in on the fun!). A conference room table can also be used as an ironing board. Certain neckties interfere with our television broadcasts.

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