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		<title>Should We Hire Staff That Doesn&#8217;t Attend Our Church?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m learning of more and more churches that make it a policy to hire staff that doesn’t attend their church. I find this very interesting. Tim Stevens, in his post Work Here? Attend Here says it’s about avoiding conflict. While I appreciate his opinion and am sure this is often the case, I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here They Are Again &#8230; The Fundamentals of Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership boils down to what we do, not the results of a spiritual gifts assessment or Myers-Briggs survey. These are good tools to help evaluate an individual and their leadership “potential,” but they do not tell us whether or not a person is good at leadership. Going to school, no matter how advanced the degree(s) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Responsibilities of Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember working with a group of employees on the manufacturing floor (many years ago) in an attempt to improve efficiency through a better layout and organization of the workspace.  I made a very interesting observation that, I believe, illustrates the significance of our responsibility to our staffs and organizations as leaders. I spent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Pastors&#8217; Summit &#8211; 2011</title>
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		<comments>http://www.executivepastoronline.com/executive-pastors-summit-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since accepting the opportunity to become CCV’s Executive Pastor way back in April of 2004, one of the things I do every year, without fail, is attend the Executive Pastors’ Summit. I’m not sure why, but regardless of our financial state (one time I “threatened” to pay for the trip myself!) being a part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Communication Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important components of good leadership is also one of the most difficult.  Have you ever heard the expression, &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m being treated like a mushroom&#8221;?  Mushrooms are fed a lot of &#8220;crap&#8221; and kept in the dark &#8230; obviously not good when it comes to communication. The bottom line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Discipline</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve talked with many church leaders in my travels and have ongoing contact with many as well. One of the “areas of challenge” that comes up from time to time is what the church leadership should do about divisive people in the church. We’ve managed to document a number of policies and procedures around here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture is Critical!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The success or failure of an enterprise is almost entirely dictated by how well the senior leadership of the organization creates a healthy culture. That’s a bold statement, I know, but it&#8217;s painfully true. Read on … A while back I wrote a series of blog posts on the topic of Leadership Fundamentals. Basically I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fundamentals of Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I’m getting “longer in the tooth” everyday adding more and more years of leadership experience to my resume as I go. I’ve been at it for a very long time. I remember my first “paid” leadership position was at the young age of 18. I was a lead operator on an automated electroplating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northeast Pastors’ Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, I am Executive Pastor of Christ’s Church of the Valley here in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Like other churches, we are very serious about reaching people who don’t have a relationship with Jesus in our area. We also feel called to help other Independent Christian Churches (ICC) in our area to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should churches require their staffs to tithe?</title>
		<link>http://www.executivepastoronline.com/should-churches-require-their-staffs-to-tithe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.executivepastoronline.com/should-churches-require-their-staffs-to-tithe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin M. Stone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, the network of church leaders with whom I routinely communicate was discussing the issue of staff member tithing. It’s that time of year! I was surprised by the amount of churches that communicate it as an expectation of staff but don’t check to see if it’s actually happening. I have an [...]]]></description>
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