TwitterI’m working to really define on paper what my goals are and what my mission is. Where there is no vision, the people will perish. I always want to see churches and people find their purpose, but I would never write down my own. As I’ve been working to form this over [...]
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As time passes, it seems like our purpose for being at Oasis in this season becomes more clear. Pastor Danny has asked us to take on some things we’re absolutely passionate about. I’m not sure what it will look like in 6 months – but I know it’s all about one thing – [...]
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I’m working on some materials to transition performance objectives from the workplace into pastors setting objectives for staff members, but in the mean time, I want to take a second to address the daily searches that lead people to my website about problems between worship leaders and senior pastors:
Be humble!
From the very first week at [...]
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Yeah, it doesn’t sound pretty, does it? John Maxwell says, they don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. It looks a little different too me…
You’ve got to be more interested in people than in what they can do for you.
I’ve seen many ministers court their large tithers [...]
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I’m so sad to see so many hits on my blog daily from searches about the Worship Leader/Senior Pastor Relationship. I posted an article a couple of months ago from Ross Parsley that I thought was great. As someone who hasn’t perfected this thing at all, I’d like to add a few thoughts:
1. [...]
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You never know who you might sit by on the plane.
I was having a deep moment in the airport last night thinking about my dreams, about how they seem unfocused and like I don’t know how to take steps to begin achieving them – thus the Dreams post yesterday, and then I sat down on [...]
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I’ve got a few thoughts here:
OD(Organizational Development) has its place in the church. I’ll explain more about that in another post about my flight last night, but since I think I’m going to start focusing a lot of my energies in OD over the next couple of months/years, I want to talk about how [...]
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