by Michael Bayne | Mar 6, 2021 | change, leadership
This month marks a year that we have been navigating this pandemic. When we stopped physical gatherings in 2020, we thought we would be back by Easter of the next month. We were wrong, and we had so much to learn ahead of us. Our church was online only for about 3...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 26, 2021 | church planting, leadership
A few years ago, Seth Godin released a book called The Dip. The book was beneficial for a pastor (that would be me) who enjoys the joys of starting new things but hates the process’s pain. The book’s point was to help leaders look at the cost of starting...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 19, 2021 | church planting, leadership
When you think about accountability, we always think it’s good for everyone else, but you rarely seek to empower personal accountability when you are in a leadership role. I’ve been thinking about accountability these days as I have watched leaders and organizations...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 12, 2021 | communication, leadership
For many pastors and ministry leaders, the deadline to speak or preach comes ruthlessly each week. We need new content, and we have to be ready to be faithful to our responsibility to invest in the people we serve. In the past few years, I have discovered that our end...
by Michael Bayne | Feb 5, 2021 | church planting, leadership
My wife and I planted a church 3 years ago with a team of 42 people that went all-in with this dream of Greenville Community Church. We merged with a revitalizing church 2 years ago and relaunched. I’m stepping into year 4 of this journey thankful for the...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 29, 2021 | change, leadership
There was no way we could have known what a difficult year this would be when we first heard about COVID-19 a year ago when the first case popped up in Seattle. As I am writing this, that was a year ago this week, and like other flu-like viruses we have encountered,...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 22, 2021 | change, leadership
One of my early goals in ministry was to survive. I grew up the child of a pastor. Growing up, I had seen pastors come, and pastors go for so many different reasons. When my wife and I began serving in a church setting, I knew I wanted to outlast, outwit, and outplay...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 15, 2021 | church planting, leadership
When we planted Greenville Community Church, we launched out of rented space in a movie theatre. We were so thankful for the space when we launched, but our hearts longed for something more permanent in a neighborhood closer to downtown. Over our first year as a...
by Michael Bayne | Jan 8, 2021 | church planting, leadership
If you lead a church, you will have people come, and people go. It’s not talked about often, but it’s a reality of serving in a church at any level. Sometimes you’re thankful that a difficult person has moved on, but more than often, people you love...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 18, 2020 | church planting, leadership
The past few weeks, we have explored the Enneagram and the pastor and the church. This week we want to step back and explore how the enneagram can be a tool to help you move toward emotional health. As a pastor, the lack of emotional health is really easy to see in...
