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Leadership General

Executive Pastor Coaching with Phil Taylor

For many years, I’ve had the privilege of coaching Executive Pastors who were new to the role, or just needed a second set of eyes during a season of personal growth. For new church planters, it’s been my privilege to find ways to try to provide this coaching to you free of charge. For others, I’ve offered myself up at a nominal cost to offset the time borrowed from my family. Since this is not my main gig, I’ve been able to provide Executive Coaching for much less than those who do it full time. If this is something you are interested in pursuing, keep on reading and then reach out to me. It would be my privilege to help you grow in your ability to lead your church and staff well. Send additional questions or customized requests to backstagepastors@gmail.com. 

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January 28, 2021by Phil Taylor
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Courses and Workshops

Building Your Eldership Development Process-Starting August 18th

So you’ve read my book on Eldership Development. Maybe you even read a few other books on Elders in the church. They sit nicely on your shelf but you haven’t yet built out your churches process for Eldership Development? What happened? You got busy. You hit a wall. You had too many unanswered questions. Coronavirus happened. I get it. Sometimes, we just need a little extra push and a little extra coaching along the way.

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July 10, 2020by Phil Taylor
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Measuring ROI

New Dissertation on Executive Pastors Impact on Church Performance

Last year, I took part in a students academic research on the correlation between the presence of an Executive Pastor and churches success. I recently received a copy of that research and wanted to share it more widely. With the authors permission, enjoy this well researched document. You’ll find it at this link below. Enjoy!

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July 2, 2020by Phil Taylor
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Ministry Ideas

Three-Year Bible Reading Plan

Have you ever tried to read the Bible in a year? How’d that work out for you? I tried it once. I got behind after a few weeks, got discouraged, and stopped. Then I found a two-year plan. I stuck with that one a little longer, but still found that it left little time to wander into other passages that were not in the plan. Finally, I decided to look for a three-year plan and I’ve been doing it for almost ten years!

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May 5, 2020by Phil Taylor
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Leadership General

A Year In The Life Of Staff Development

Recently, I was asked to describe briefly what staff development looked like at our church. After taking a few minutes to sketch out a response it seemed like something that might benefit others so I took a little more time to do this well. I don’t believe this is perfect. I’m sure that there is more that I could and should be doing, or things that I could be doing more effectively, but here is what it looks like in general right now. I’m 100% sure it will change. Here is a year in the life of staff development for me at Mosaic Church . . .

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April 20, 2020by Phil Taylor
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Executive Pastor Leadership

What Type of Executive Pastor Are You?

Throughout my years in the Executive Pastor role, I’ve had the privilege of getting to know many of my peers in ministry. At the risk of oversimplification, I have noticed that most XPs (shorthand for Executive Pastor) fall into one of two categories.

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March 10, 2020by Phil Taylor
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Ministry Ideas

Can You Practice Silence and Solitude with 1200 people?

Recently, I had the opportunity to preach the sermon in between Christmas and New Years. One of our pastors refers to this as “Youth Pastor Sunday” and there is some truth to the fact that it is rarely the Lead Pastor preaching that week. At Mosaic, we tend to take turns doing it and let’s be honest, nobody really wants to do it. While everyone else is enjoying some extra time with their families at the holidays, the person who draws the short straw has to be prepping a sermon. So, since I knew that I’d be doing this particular Sunday a couple months in advance, I started my prep early and I did something really different. I attempted to practice silence and solitude in a room full of people. And it actually worked rather well!

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January 11, 2020by Phil Taylor
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Elder Development

Teaching on Elders from 1 Peter 5:1-5

Recently I taught our church on the subject of Elders from 1 Peter 5:1-5. As someone who has written a book on developing Elders, this is a topic that is close to my heart. I share this sermon with you in hopes that it might benefit your church somehow. I’m also totally willing to send you my manuscript if you email me for it. backstagepastors@gmail.com

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July 11, 2019by Phil Taylor
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Church Planting

Five Systems Every Church Planter Needs

(This article is essentially the session notes from a breakout session I did at the “Advance The Church” conference in November 2018 in Huntsville, Alabama. As soon as the audio is available, I’ll update this post. Come to ATC 2019, our church in the Orlando area is hosting the next one!)
Let’s be honest, the typical church planter is not known for being a systems thinker. You’ve got a great vision. You know exactly what you hope your church will look like. It’s all there in your mind. And if you think it’s going to just happen naturally, you are wrong. As organic and free spirited as you might be, a few systems are non-negotiable. Let’s talk about five of them. 1. Communication Systems 2. Connection Systems 3. Leadership Systems 4. Reputation Systems 5. Soul Care systems.

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November 11, 2018by Phil Taylor
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Ministry Ideas

When A Mini-Series Has Maximum Impact

We recently finished a four week series at Mosaic called “Only Jesus”. In the early planning stages, it was a catch all for a few different things we wanted to unpack with our church. But then it morphed into an incredibly succinct look at what our church is all about. As the communications team joined together with the teaching team to hear from our Lead Pastor on his heart for the series and discuss the felt needs of a congregation whose collective head was spinning from rapid growth, we began to brainstorm on the story that threaded it all together. Pretty soon,

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October 4, 2018by Phil Taylor
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Communications

Building a Video Set On The Cheap

We have some pretty talented story tellers at Mosaic in the area of video. Recently, we tasked them with creating some new videos to use in our Chapter One Class (for new people at Mosaic). It involved a lot of filming over multiple weeks in an effort to catch multiple staff and congregants. As such, it made sense for them to build a little film set that we could use for this and other projects down the road.

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October 1, 2018by Phil Taylor
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In Praise Of

Culture Wins | By William Vanderbloemen

I first heard William Vanderbloemen talk about staff culture during the 2018 XPastor Seminar in Dallas where we were both doing breakout sessions. (His was way more interesting than mine). I knew in my gut that staff culture needed to become a bigger focus for me at our church because I could already see the cracks emerging as our team sought to keep up with a rapid growth curve following the opening of our new building. By the time that “Culture Wins: The Roadmap to An Irresistible Workplace” was published a few months later, we had experienced 30% growth in our weekend gatherings and I needed what this book had to offer.

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September 20, 2018by Phil Taylor
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Building Projects

Learning From A Building Project

There were ferns and moss growing in between the tiles that had long since come detached from the concrete floor. Sunlight streamed through the leaking roof creating interesting shadows in this massive 78,000 sq. foot space. The smell of mold was overpowering even with the required mask. It was quiet, desolate even—the calm before the storm. Exactly one year later, on December 10th 2017, 3800 people piled into this building for the grand opening of Mosaic Church’s new Winter Garden, FL home.

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September 8, 2018by Phil Taylor
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Communications

Capturing Video of Moments That Help Tell Your Story

Our Student Ministry just did a big Fall Kick Off Event. All the new students that just became old enough were invited and because we’ve grown a lot this year, we had even more students show up for the first time. The team pulled off a high energy event that they called “Glow Night”. Anything that could glow, was glowing that night. Even the band. I walked in to drop off my girls and encourage the team and I was blown away by what they had pulled off with honestly not a very big budget. As I saw all the kids having an absolute blast, I thought “Oh shoot, I wish the video team was here tonight capturing this”. No sooner did that thought cross my mind did I see one of our video team out in the middle of the crowd getting some great shots. Check out this recap video they made of the event. We shared it on social media and people loved it. Videos like this help parents know that Student Ministry is pretty awesome at Mosaic. Don’t spend a ton of time creating an awesome event and then forget to capture photos or video of it for future or current use. Even if it’s all volunteer based, do something with that stuff.

 

August 26, 2018by Phil Taylor
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Communications

New Sermon Series Bumper Video

Our church just jumped into the book of Acts again after a little break. Our creative types put together a cool video to use as an intro. I share it here for you to get ideas for your church.

August 9, 2018by Phil Taylor
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My name is Phil. I am the Executive Pastor of Leadership and Development at Mosaic Church in west Orlando, FL where I live with my wife and three kids. I'm into running and kayaking.

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My name is Gabriel. I am the Pastor of Discipleship and Mission at Mosaic, a muliti-site church in West Orlando, FL. My wife and and I are passionate about serving our city and changing our world.

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