Summer always seems to be the craziest time of year for me. Summer camp, family vacations, and the invariable summer-move-in-to-a-new-house have kept me busy and I haven't posted in a while. I've got three more blog posts focusing on Catalyst West (from way back in April). It'll be a barrage of great insight from wise Christian men who have more experience in ministry than I do.
:: Rick Warren ::
-These are people Jesus died for.
As Leaders we need to do the following:
- Divert Daily :: What energizes you? If you work with your mind, you need to relax with your hands.
- Withdraw Weekly :: If you don't take a sabbath, you are sinning! Call it "sabbath" and treat it that way.
- Abandon Anually :: don't take your laptop or your cell phone.
- Energy management is more important than time management.
- If you do ministry Jesus's way, you will last in ministry. If you do it your way you will not last.
- Jesus is the model. Not Rick Warren, not Andy Stanley.
- Never stop learning. Learn from everybody. You need to be humble.
- Never compare yourself (for two reasons)
1 - Discouragement
2 - Pride
- Never give up.
- I don't try to be profound, I try to be simple.
- To move people from unbeliever to missionary you need to have an intentional plan and it must be incremental.
- Take people from "come and see" to "come and die." A church has to be both. You cannot be one or the other.
- I'm not interested in a crowd, I'm interested in an army!
Rick had a couple of important points for leaders to remember. We need to take breaks and ministry needs to be modeled after Jesus.
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