1. Pray for one another, but don’t bind yourselves to do it every day until death. Doing so will only burden your conscience and make an irksome duty out of what should be a delightful privilege. 2. Don’t go away and talk more about the experience than about Christ; the world needs Him. 3. Every place […]
Category: church leaders
How D. L. Moody* explained Jesus Christ.
“Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,” Jesus told His disciples. “Wait,” Peter interrupted. “Do You really mean that we are to go back to Jerusalem and preach the Gospel to those men that murdered You?” “Yes,” Jesus told him. “Go hunt up that man that spat in my face. Tell him […]
Seven things I learned about wishing for a do-over.
A Wrinkle in Time once came up in a meeting. Someone asked, “What would your future self tell you to say if you came back to this meeting?” We’ve all wished for a do-over. To have shared our hunch that turned out to be right, or not shared a comment based on what we felt […]
Board Reports & Jesus’ Return.
As the cliché goes, the best time to prepare for next quarter’s board meeting is the day after you leave this quarter’s board meeting. That’s when the board’s interests are clear and compelling, and you can harness all the seasoned wisdom and savvy anecdotes you just gleaned from a curated team of experts. Which elements […]
Seven ways to mentor one another in the local church.
Karl Vaters makes an important point in his book, Small Church Essentials. Many of us learned the basics of our faith in Sunday school or discipleship classes, but it takes mentoring to understand how to put it all into practice. The goal of mentoring is to help us move from knowing to becoming. Here are […]
