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Welcome to LeaderPastor




Welcome to LeaderPastor! My name is Chad Hunt. I am the lead pastor at Victory Hill Church and a ministry consultant with The Unstuck Group. I am excited to start this brand new blog entitled, LeaderPastor. The purpose of this blog is to create content and best practices to help lead pastors (or maybe your term is senior pastor) lead their church beyond where they are today. As a pastor, you have been called to lead the greatest mission on the planet! And in order to do that well, you have to make sure that you grow you. What does that mean? It means this.  At some point, lead pastors must become leader pastors. Not every lead pastor is a leader pastor. There is a difference. 


This is one of the reasons approximately 80% of churches in the United States have less than 100 people attending each weekend. And what's even more troubling, these churches aren't seeing new people meet Jesus. Discipleship simply isn't happening. While there is a long list of things that can result in stalled attendance and low or no impact, leadership is at the top of the list, especially the leadership of the lead pastor. 


When pastors talk church growth, their conversations usually lands in two places; attendance and impact, instead of self growth. The principle is, grow the leader and you'll grow the church. We are called to lead people and a movement of the gospel. And before we can do that well, we have to lead and develop ourselves. 


If you're a lead pastor or leader in your church or organization, I invite you to follow this blog and take a moment and share it with your friends. I will be sharing things I have learned over the last 25+ years from leading and working with churches. We will have conversations around leading yourself, leading others, leading through vision, leading change, leading staff meetings, etc. 


I am excited to share these things with you, but also hear from and learn from you as well. Let's become better leaders, together! 


Sincerely,

Chad


















Comments

  1. AnonymousJune 7, 2023 at 1:06 PM

    Thanks for starting this Chad. Are you using AI in any area of your church leadership?

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  2. AnonymousAugust 31, 2023 at 2:39 PM

    We are test driving a few areas.

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