What do pastors have in common with CEOs? Quite a bit when you think about it: casting the vision, making hiring decisions, setting strategic direction, and innovating, just for starters. These high level leadership abilities don’t come out of thin air. How does a willing servant of the Lord become a high capacity leader? You learn about leadership and […]
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Do you Know the 3 Unspoken Promises Church Leaders Make?
Stepping into leadership is exhilarating. And daunting. As a new leader, these questions made themselves at home in my head: “Will people follow me? Will they like me? Will I be able to accomplish anything?” Little did I know, followers have their own litany of questions. They want to know: “Is this person trustworthy? Do I want to follow […]
How to be a Church Leader who is a Better, Faster Reader
What’s a guy to do when a family member, friend, or church member asks what you would like for Christmas or your birthday? You may not want to give them a look at what’s really on your wish list. Gift cards, then? Cold cash? Maybe. Here’s the million dollar answer: a book, please! Leaders are […]
Why your Success will Follow your Faithfulness
3 Reasons Why Faithfulness is More Important than Success As a teenager, my pastor introduced me to 1 Corinthians 4:2: “Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.” According to Paul, faithfulness isn’t an option for God’s people, it’s a requirement. On the other hand, while there’s never […]
The Cure for Crazy Busy
Does your to-do list feel long and heavy this week? How long has it been since you took your foot off the gas? Join the club. John Ortberg’s book Soul Keeping: Caring for the Most Important Part of You crossed my path last week and I decided to download it and take a quick look at it […]
The 3 Simple Behaviors of Successful People
There are six of us. All are pastors. All of them lead mega-mega churches. And we get together every January for a Pastors’ Roundtable Retreat. This year I saw that these successful friends of mine have three things in common. They show up. They stay long-term. And they never stop learning. A ton of great books […]
7 Reasons to Start a Pastors’ Roundtable Retreat
February 2013 I spent three days recently at a cabin with five other pastors, holding what we call a Roundtable. I’m from California. We met in Illinois, where it blizzarded one day and the temperature hit negative seven one night. I didn’t care. What we were doing was so important we didn’t need to go […]
3 Reasons Why Faithfulness is More Important than Success
As a teenager, my pastor introduced me to 1 Cor. 4:2 – Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. According to Paul, faithfulness isn’t an option for God’s people, it’s a requirement.
On the other hand, while there’s never a command for us to be successful, Jesus does expect us to produce results. He doesn’t say, Go and TRY to make disciples. He says, “Go and MAKE disciples.”
But faithfulness is more important than any results we might experience, for three reasons: