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Doing work that Matters
Seth Godin blog something really remarkable that every pastor should take heed. I am reposting his blog and will comment The first rule of doing work that matters Go to work on a regular basis. Art is hard. Selling is hard. Writing is hard. Making a difference is hard. When you’re doing hard work, getting…
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Spiritual Pride
This is a tough one because I am a proud man. I hate to admit it but I am. A pastor can easily succumb to pride. Moral pride because we are good compare to a normal person. We pray, we read our Bible, we memorize scriptures – like the Pharisees. Also theological pride – feeling…
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Better before Bigger
Last Tuesday our team listened to Andy Stanley’s latest leadership podcast on why we need to be better and not bigger. He talks about how as we get better people demand that we get bigger. A lot of times we do it the other way around – we plan to get bigger without even planning…
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Leadership Trap
After reading the book Linchpin by Seth Godin – I came home with one very important lesson – REAL ARTISTS SHIP. As a pastor of a church – we ship every week. The product that we ship is our homily. For some it seems like that is not considered an art but wait till you…
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Focus on your Strengths
From today to Sept 30, i’ll be trying to blog on some leadership lessons I have been learning that has truly made an impact in my life and my ministry. So today is leadership lesson 1: YOUR TEAM MUST FOCUS ON ITS STRENGTH AND NOT ITS WEAKNESSES. For the past few months, God has been…