Leadership and Board Rooms with Tom Melzoni

I was looking around the jammed church on a Saturday afternoon
when I was barely out of seminary and traveling with a famous
speaker. Now it takes skill to hold an audience on a Sunny
Saturday afternoon for a church conference, and this crowd was
mesmerized. The content was wonderful and compelling. But
something was eating at my insides, so I looked around again at
the audience. What was bugging me? What was wrong?


Little did I know that my perceptions at the time would lead to a
major life change. These weren’t “my” people. They weren’t the
kind of folks with which one might want to go out and enjoy the
proverbial beer. It was too neat and too clean. No matter how
much I liked the message, I couldn’t get away from the fact that
somehow the people who follow a message says something about the
messenger.


Isn’t it interesting that when the subject of Church comes up, it
doesn’t take long before leaders become the topic of discussion.
“This Pastor did this.” “That minister said that.” “My priest one
time.”


Why is it that leaders in the church and leadership in the church
seems to get it wrong so often and make us want to run away?
Leaders hurt us.


To help us navigate these waters today I have invited a man who
has spent more time in Church boardrooms than almost anyone else
I know. His name is Dr. Tom Melzoni and he’s preached to
thousands at a time, been in churches so small I’ve seen
bathrooms that are bigger and he knows where the bodies are
buried. With a Ph.D. from Columbia University and President of a
Foundation that does a ton of good stuff here he is: Welcome
Tom.