Category: Church Multiplication
3 P’s Every Leader Must Remember
To grow as a leader and as a church there are three things that must be in a place that can be evaluated and corrected on a regular basis.
Priorities.
Some would call these our core values. These are the things that make us tick. That tell us who we are. These are the things that all the other “stuff” flow from. The priorities are the filter for every program, every dollar, and every effort. Without knowing our priorities and without evaluating them regularly and deciding if what we’re doing goes along with them, we’re running a a race without a course.
How To Get The Church On Board With Vision
You spend some great time with God.
You really feel you know what the next step of Kingdom growth for your church should look like.
You begin to move in that direction and earnestly try and get buy in, just to be met with disappointment and frustration.
This happens all too often when a leader fails to establish a “Vision Protection” team.
Think back to Jesus’ day. He had a vision protection team. It had 3 parts…
4 Attitudes of a Productive Team
My father in law taught me a lot about bees before he died. He raised them and harvested their honey for years. And they never ceased to amaze him for all those years.
Bees are amazing, but they have four main objectives:
They will build a hive,
protect the hive with force,
sustain themselves with honey,
and reproduce.
The teams in our churches desperately need to keep these four qualities in the fore front of their minds.
Caveman Church Leader
Say what you want about the large bearded man rockin the Wooley Mammoth suit and carrying that big beatin stick, but he knows how to survive!
We can learn something from our caveman cousin about the art of surviving and growing in some difficult situations… Like, church! I see four skills the caveman developed that would be of great value to church leaders…
Stop Being A Car Chasing Leader
We’ve all seen dogs that chase cars. It’s funny they like to try and catch up with a car going 40 mph and bark and growl like they really have a chance of catching it.
As pastors and leaders, we’re all guilty of trying to catch something that is simply going too fast. I’m not saying we shouldn’t have big God goals and visions, but they have to be based on what we KNOW He wants to do around and through us.
2 things about chasing “cars” as a leader…