Hey, everyone! I’ve been mulling around the idea of doing a series of blog posts entitled The Problem with Pastor. This series will touch on a very sensitive topic for many in ministry: how a pastor can make or break their staff.
I’ve always felt that as a pastor you can hire GOOD staff at your church. But GREAT staff are made. I know many of you have had incredible success on some church staffs and utter failures on others. So I’m curious to explore this topic, and I would encourage you to help me flesh this out by thinking through and answering these two questions:
1. In staff environments where you have seen success, what are the 3 things that your pastor did (or did not do) that helped contribute to that success?
2. What are the 3 things that your pastor has done (or did not do) that damaged or hindered your ministry?
Now, understand that this series is not intended to be a forum for anyone to attack their pastors. The motives are pure…to help educate pastors and staff people about the little things they do that influence the success of their staff. Let’s face it…pastors and support staff have entirely different ideas about how to make great staff.
Please send your answers to these questions, as well as examples, to phil@phillipcox.net. Please do not post your answers in the comments. When writing these blog posts, all examples will remain anonymous…I’m not gonna get you in trouble with your current staff. 
