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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…
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who’s the leader?
The past two weeks is sort of a reassessment of my leadership. Last month we got a really great, convicting PEP talk from Pastor Steve Murrell on leadership. The talk sort of opened a box for our church staff to start reassessing our leadership roles and responsibilities. A leader is someone who knows what is…
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The Expendables in your church
Do you have the Stallones, Willis, Statham, Li, Crews, Rourke, Couture who backs you up pastor? Who are the expendables in your church? Who backs you up? Who are the elders or what we call “olders” in church who you run to for advice and bounce back your ideas and recent learnings from Scripture on…
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Pressures and God
Everybody pastor of a church faces pressure. The pressure to make the church grow, the pressure to have a healthy cash inflow to fund the work of God in the city, the pressure to balance ministry and family, the pressure to preach a new message week in and week out, the pressure to be pastoral…