If we hope to lead everyone in the room to the truth of our message, we must start by connecting everyone in the room to us and our message. Compelling preaching is not a simple task.
The best ideas typically come from people who are closest to the problem. Here are a few ideas about how you can establish a problem solving culture.
I want to focus on just one aspect of how Scripture talks about the church—the images of the church—and consider how these metaphors support and inform our understanding church membership.
What did friendship mean to me during my years as a pastor? What is your experience at the intersection of leadership and friendship?
Sometimes we solve people’s problems by giving them answers instead of fostering insight. These choices are unhealthy dependencies.
Why don’t more Christians, myself included, look more like Jesus? Ego. Christian ego.
Everyone thinks about leaving ministry. I’ve been there. I know pastors and staff members who are there now. And, I’ve known leaders who actually took this route. It happens.
Not every church needs to sound and look like a Taylor Swift concert. In fact, a laid-back, acoustic approach for a mobile church might actually provide an authentic vibe that many seekers would find attractive.
An aviation term called a death spiral describes what can happen to a plane in nighttime or poor flying conditions when a pilot loses his sense of the plane’s horizontal orientation. In ministry, leaders can often get caught in a similar downward spiral.
The second we begin to compete with one another, we lose. The second we begin to compete together with one another, Jesus wins.
