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Look before You Lead: How to Discern and Shape Your Church Culture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Before you can lead your church, you have to know your church. Pastoral ministry is challenging work. It is made even more challenging when a pastor ignores the church’s “congregational culture” when seeking to minister to members or implement changes. Just as a pastor studies to interpret the Scriptures, he or she must also interpret the local church culture to better understand and move the...

I like to think of culture as an apple—the Culture Apple. When you hear the term culture, rather than go blank, picture an apple. The Culture Apple will help us picture and understand what a leader does as he seeks to discover a congregation’s culture. Reading a congregation’s culture is similar to peeling back and examining the layers of an apple. The Culture Apple consists of three layers or levels. The organization’s beliefs and values intermingle
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