Check out this post that I wrote for the NOC about LEADERSHIP RIGHT WHERE GOD HAS CALLED YOU.
Are we passionate about our calling or always longing for something more?
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whose dream am i fulfilling?
In Church Leadership on April 25, 2009 at 3:06 pmDuring some leadership conversation yesterday centered around John Maxwell’s: “Developing the Leaders Around You” an interesting question was raised from the book.
When someone works for you, or is on your team: Are you helping to fulfill their dream or your dream?
I would hope their is some buy-in and overlap, but that is a great question to wrestle with. I pray that it’s both, but at times I have hire only for the latter.
I think this is the difference between a long time, trusted person on the team, and someone who comes and goes and is not very effective.
Their dream should also be their “calling,” and when the two collide…watch out!
those i lead.
In Church Leadership on April 24, 2009 at 2:40 ami will never go any farther than where they help take me. it is my job to choose, pour into and love those who are serving with me. how are you doing as a leader in this?
it is our most important task outside of loving God and our family.
thank you to those who are following my leadership. i wouldn’t be here without your strong leadership with me and to THOSE YOU ARE LEADING. i love you all. really, i do.
my other love right now…
In Church Leadership, leadership in a small to medium sized town, podcast, the sticks conference on March 30, 2009 at 11:27 pmis ministering to leaders in small towns via THE STICKS.
more to come…but for now, listen to 900 seconds with Gary Lamb, the host and lead pastor for our last STICKS conference in May @ REVOLUTION CHURCH in Canton, Ga. And hold onto your buttocks…
this is one passionate dude. makes me look like a spring chicken.
one of the greatest lessons i am learning…
In Church Leadership, Church Staffing on March 27, 2009 at 6:41 pmI will steal this post and lesson from JEFF HENDERSON, who is the director of Northpoint’s BUCKHEAD CAMPUS.
Learn this lesson well or it will kill you and your church.
I found a mine this morning.
In Church Leadership on January 28, 2009 at 11:00 pmWas anyone else blown away with the wealth that was mined this morning in their reader? Wow. Some must reads here from my daily breakfast with God and other leaders through some amazing writers:
Ed Stetzer KILLED it. I KNEW this long ago, but DOING it is another thing.
Perry nailed it with some things that he wished he would have known before starting NewSpring.
Tim Stevens let us see creativity in action and a light-hearted way to deal with this horrible economy. He also gave a shout out to the STICKS!
2nd time church planter Vince Antonucci (very much the same story of what we are doing but he is going to Vegas!) has this post about avoiding extremes. This is one of my mantras in ministry!
And my friend Dave Anderson shares some incredible news and encouragement for those of you who are bi-vocational pastors. It can be done! Dave is in a church plant that just broke 300 and he is killing it bi-vocationally.
this is spot on and a stolen post that will ROCK YOU.
In Church History, Church Leadership on January 15, 2009 at 2:11 pm
If you do not subscribe to Catalyst Monthly…you should.
This article by Ed Stetzer (who by the way will be a speaker at the STICKS regionals) totally hit a home run this morning as I read this article.
Thanks Ed, for saying what I have wanted to say, but could never say in a way that you say it was said…
CHECK IT OUT.
AND YES! I WILL BE BACK IN THE SADDLE THIS WEEKEND @New Hope…been missing ya!
shake it up.
In Church Leadership on December 17, 2008 at 5:01 am“Change before you have to.” –Jack Welch
We better learn from this. Don’t change because you want to or are forced too. Change because you must. (And this has nothing to do with our present situation…I am talking about ministry, relationships, etc. that all need to change in order to grow!)
In our case it is to reach and teach people about Jesus and to always modify our approach based on God’s voice and the current climate and context we find ourselves. This has been a driving force @ New Hope since day 1.
getting smaller as you get bigger.
In Church Leadership, community on November 6, 2008 at 5:01 am
From time to time people comment that they are sad to see people come and go at churches. They might in all love ask the staff to do something about it.
From time to time people comment that we should “grow deeper” at churches.
They might in all love ask the staff to do something about it.
From time to time our staff asks them back what they are doing to help care for others and what they are doing to “grow?” [We just completed a 10 week or so series on HOW TO GROW/SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES: SELF-FEEDING].
Tonight as our fine group of ministry leaders and small group leaders gathered we reviewed how the CHURCH is to BE the CHURCH. The staff can’t keep track of the 1,200+ who call New Hope their home. And to get that many people doing this is monumental as well. It takes a ton of time and effort and the process literally takes years to gain traction when you have had rapid growth.
We talked about the 3 things as leaders we should be doing with the church and our teams:
Accountability/Belonging/Care (see Acts 2 and 6, etc.)
I have a team of 18-20 who I am engaged with this in (and that is a large task in itself). A small group, a group of friends and a group of people I am trying to reach for Christ.
It is not OPTIONAL that we BE the CHURCH. All of us. And this place and the fired up group of leaders I met with tonight are doing our best to make this happen. It’s not about a weekend experience. It is as much if not MORE about what happens during the in-between time! [Pastor Jeff Cooper reminded us well of this tonight!]
Are you engaged in this? If we aren’t a part of the solution, we might be a part of the problem. Who can you (and I) bring some Accountability/Belonging/Care too in Jesus name?
I am honored to serve with such amazing people. None of us are perfect. We are just trying to live out the life that Christ called us to. It won’t happen overnight, but inch by inch we are making HUGE progress!
deeper level communication.
In Church Leadership on October 7, 2008 at 10:00 pmWe talked about communication last week during our FIXmySPOUSE series…
Perry Noble a pastor I resonate with greatly offers to pastors, staffers and leaders who sometimes get blasted “always in love” and “by the Spirit’s leading” with what people are really saying when they say certain “church phrases.” I know no one at New Hope has ever thought this or said this, but for those of you who are not perfect like our people at New Hope are…READ THIS QUICK POST.
Really…go on…you know you wanna.
