Articles & Resources

Leadership and Church Size Dynamics: How Strategy Changes with Growth, Tim Keller explores how a church’s size shapes its relationships, leadership, and ministry. His central insight is simple: as congregations grow, the ways they organise, communicate, and care for people need to change.

Growing from 250 to 500: Key Leadership and Organisational Priorities 1. Consider the scalability of ministries, systems and organisational structures. Apply the principles of Scale or Fail to ensure the church’s systems, structures and processes can support growth. Identify current bottlenecks and areas that rely too heavily on the senior leader. Develop repeatable systems that allow the church to grow without unnecessarily increasing complexity or workload. 2. Develop minis

A document to help the leadership team reflect on the changes needed to support healthy, sustainable growth from a congregation of around 250 to 500 people

Slides from the roundtable Workbook from the roundtable

In this article, we will explore how Situational Leadership, alongside an apprentice training framework, can help growing churches develop stronger, healthier leaders. As church leaders, we already know that as the church grows, leadership development can no longer rely solely on informal relationships, direct communication, or the capacity of a few senior leaders. Growth brings complexity, and complexity requires intentional leadership development. This article introduces a

Slides from the recent Breakthrough 200 presentation. Come back for the notes later.

Facilitator’s Guide: “Four Questions Review” Purpose To support a shared reflection on a situation, helping the group surface strengths, challenges, uncertainties, and gaps. Preparation Prepare and clearly articulate the scenario or situation Have a flipchart, whiteboard, or shared document ready to capture responses Allow ~30–40 minutes total Step 1: Introduce the Exercise Explain: This is a reflection and sense-making activity, not problem-solving The goal is to hear a rang

The Leadership Pipeline – One Page Summary Overview The Leadership Pipeline is a leadership development model created by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel. It describes leadership growth as a series of transitions or “passages” where leaders must develop new skills, values, and ways of working in order to succeed at higher levels of responsibility. The key principle is: What makes someone successful at one level will not automatically make them successful at the ne