The truth is: you’ll always have more to do than you can possibly do alone. But poor delegation undermines those who are there to work, and overwhelms the leader who is trying to keep them busy.
Category: on Ministry
Your church was missing people yesterday.
The reality is, people love to be noticed. But perhaps more than that, people love to be missed. And too often the church focuses on who is new, and who is here, and misses the people who need to be noticed the most.
Church: Wake up! We have work to do.
In the church, we have work to do. We have a calling. We have a mission in our communities. And it is our responsibility, one to another, as members of one body, to turn to one another—and not as authority or lording power over someone, but as people who love each other—to say, “Wake up!” we have work to do.
Your view of the church may be all wrong.
Sometimes we inadvertently teach a lesson I wish we could erase: that the church is where you go for an hour on Sunday morning and sit in between worship songs.
These pre-teen retreats are going to blow your mind.
Retreat content that doesn’t treat pre-teens like kids? Messages that engage them from start to finish? No one saying shhhh from stage? That’s impossible. Or, at least, you’d think it was.