Category: Leadership

Hey folks, I was going to post something on Technology and Theology, but I’m taking a break for this week from the web strategy series to address something more specific to mission and theology. We’ll, hopefully, jump back to the series with web strategy next week.

Every church has them, they’re noisy, loud, make a mess, and generally just have to be watched all the time. No, I’m not talking about babies although these things are true for them too. (I mean, have you seen what a 6 month old can do while left alone? It’s amazing the amount of destructive energy they have. Now if only we could harness that for good…….ok that’s a rabbit trail for another day.) What I’m actually talking about is Continue reading “Don’t Complain To Me”

 

 

 

 

1. For some of us are in the middle of a situation that we’ve never planned
1. Ministry isn’t going quite how we planned it.
2. We’re a little overwhelmed.
2. Sometimes things don’t go the way we plan.
3. 4 questions to ask if things aren’t going quite the way you planned them.
1. What am I asking God for?
1. We really can ask God for big things.
2. Some of us are in troublesome situations, not because we’re stupid, but because God told us to go there.
3. Is it all about he numbers?
1. Yes.  It’s about the numbers of people who aren’t going to hell but are going to Heaven.
2. “One of the problems is that we’re afraid to ask God for something big, because it might bother Him. God is not bothered by our big request. I think God is actually bothered more, many times, by our small faith.”                  -Perry Noble
2. What am I willing to go through?
1. God is asking some of you, do you want mild or wild?
2. “The size of the vision that God is going to give us is directly in proportion to the pain that you and I are willing to endure and there are too many church leaders today going God I want to follow you but I want to take up my matress, I don’t want to take up my cross.” -Perry Noble
3. Alot of church leaders want to pray, but not many want to perspire and do anything significant, but if you’re going to follow Jesus it’s going to get wild and unpredictable.
3. Am I seeing Him clearly?
1. God sometimes allows us to go through harder things so that we can see him more clearly.
2. Shadrack, Meshak, and Abednego didn’t see Jesus until they were in the middle of the furnace.
4. What am I willing to believe?
1. Close youre eyes, face forward, and run
1. If you stop looking at the problem, and run toward it, it’s not as bad as you thought.
2. In the middle of one of your biggest problems in ministry, God will still call you to take a step of faith.
2. “Then Jesus said, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believe,   you will see the glory of God?'”  -John 11:40
3. We spend to much time trying to get people to listen to God’s word when some of us need to just step out and take God at his word.
4. God used their pain for progress
5. Everything here is temporary
6. You are a temporary container and eternity is worth it.

 

 

 

1. Be not afraid.
1. Jeremiah 1:8
2. Joshua 1:9
3. Creativity makes people not afraid
2. Acts 1:1
1. Look for many convincing proofs that Jesus is alive
3. We spend so much time memorizing Jesus, rather than meeting Jesus.
1. That’s what stalkers do.  They memorize and never meet
2. Stop creeping Jesus out by stalking him.
4. Quit Thursdays
1. Thursdays are for quitting things.
2. If we never offload anything, then we’re hoarders.

 

 

 

Chris Seay, the pastor of Ecclesia in Houston had the chance to interview his friend Rudy Rasmus who is the Pastor of St. John’s, one of the most ethnically diverse church’s in our nation.  Below are the notes:

Rudy learned most about being present in his aunt’s food market on ailse 1:

1. Lesson’s from Ailse 1
1. Engage before judging.
1. Most judgement comes out of fear.
2. Embrace your pain.
1. If you can embrace your pain, then it is easier to embrace the pain of others.
3. Love before leaving.
1. Love before leaving someone’s pressence.
2. At the core of this is accepting who you are, where you are, and why you are, and then making the decision to go forward from there.
2. 1 Cor. 9:20-23
1. You’re the only Jesus some will ever see is misread alot to mean “You better be just like Jesus and perfectly moral or nobody’s ever gonna come to Jesus.”
2. No one connects because they’re awesome. It’s not that, but rather, we like to put together our ____________ anonymous groups.
3. What draws us is that we are looking for a group to walk the path towards redemption together.
3. What has God called me in the place that I am?
4. Rudy’s goal at this point of the journey is to become more peaceful, more loving, and to demonstrate with even more authenticity about what I preach everywhere.

 

 

 

 

1. Spent time at Tony Evans house.
1. He learned about kingdom life from watching Tony live life.
2. His son ran the 4×400 relay and the kid before his son dropped the batton.
1. The 4×400 relay is all about the handoff
2. If you have a bad handoff, then you have to work harder to catch up.
3. Alot of times we train on the wrong track.
4. His son’s response was to reposition himself, in order to get back into the race.
3. Who do you mirror your life after?
1. (speaking about God the Father) “The more I learn about my Father, the more I have something to model.” -Kirk Franklin
2. When Kirk felt like no one noticed him in the industry at the American Music Awards he spoke to God about it. He felt like God gave him a glimpse of what it feels like to be God in our culture.
3. The Village Inn video shows Michael Jackson perfectly following the director so that the steps light up.
1. Every step will light up, because our steps have been planned out, if we follow the instructions of the Director.

 

 

 

1. You can keep what you start and not give it away, but it won’t be much when you end.
2. We overestimate the moment and we underestimate the process.
3. “At all times i’m one step from stupid.” -John Maxwell
1. Stupid is: trying to take shortcuts, ignoring process, and getting something you didn’t earn.
4. The best conversations in life come from asking good questions.