Five Stages Of Decline Hubris born of success Undisciplined pursuit of more Denial of risk and peril Grasping for salvation Capitulation to irrelevance or death Bad decisions taken with good intentions are still bad decisions Great leaders have two things in common, they know it is not about them, and they never give up. Undisciplined […]
Read More →Today’s quote comes from Mark Beeson in a message he preached a couple of weeks back. As he was talking about tradition, he said: “We should honor tradition, but we should not let it enslave us.” Over the 20 years that I have been in ministry, it has been kind of fun (and sad) to […]
Read More →As I read thought the Gospels, I am amazed at the number of times that Jesus would rebuke the Pharisees for the life they were living. Most people looked at the Pharisees and thought they were the very creme of the crop, and were the example that everyone needed to follow. Their commitment to religious […]
Read More →This weeks quote comes from Andy Stanley and his leadership podcast that I have been listening to. You can listen to his podcast by going to iTunes and subscribing to it. Great stuff! Ok, here is this weeks quote: “The local church rarely gets serious about change until they run out of money… We’re preoccupied […]
Read More →Many times churches get this idea that being busy and starting more things is the same as being a success. It is easy to think that the more ministries you start, the better the church must be doing. But here is the deal, more things going on is NOT the goal. The goal should be […]
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