While it’s natural to go through seasons when our ministry efforts don’t seem to be moving forward as quickly as we’d like, there are a few common (but avoidable) leadership mistakes that can cause ministry momentum to stagnate.
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I’d been a pastor for several years before I received the revelation of effective congregational care. It hit me like a ton of bricks and soon became a revolution that changed my life and ministry forever.
Discipleship, we suppose, is for those few super-saints called into the ministry, and so we are trapped in the fellowship of low expectations.
Great leaders take responsibility for bringing clarity to their team culture. How do you know if you’ve got a healthy volunteer and staff team culture, or a toxic team culture?
For all the time and prayers, hopes and hugs, promises and good intentions, resolutions and moral resolve—nothing seems to happen. It all appears futile. Is there ever a time to connect pornography and church discipline?
While well-meaning and good-intentioned, I’ve now come to find this statement to not only be inaccurate, but potentially destructive. Maybe ministry isn’t a marathon.
Some things hide in plain sight. Others hide behind fancy names. And still others hide among the over-decorated trappings of tradition dressed up as garish holiday cheer. Sometimes it’s all three. These are the lessons of Christmas.
Truly radical church planting requires us to go deep: the “subterranean” life of the church must be rooted at least four ways.
This season, if you are a nobody—rejoice! You are not far from the Kingdom of God, because He’s the God of nobodies, like you and me.
It’s tempting when a believer comes to you, saying, “Pastor, I have a hard time reading the Bible regularly. Can you give me a devotional plan?” Resist this temptation! There is a better way.
