February 2025 – Inspiring and Challenging Dreamers

Just For Pastors 26: Get the Clippers Out!

Every church has two kinds of people – there’s other ways to classify people – but this is one that every pastor needs to know. You have the plugged in people and the hanging around people. You know – and it is only the people who are plugged in should get power! What do IContinue reading “Just For Pastors 26: Get the Clippers Out!”

Just for Pastors 25: Let Them All In!

You don’t have a mandate from the Lord to run a church for one sort of person – a youth church, a Nigerian church, a middle-class church, an elderly church. A church should have a mix of whatever is in the community around it – that is a healthy church. A church should mirror theContinue reading “Just for Pastors 25: Let Them All In!”

Just For Pastors 24: Take Charge of Your Service!

Every church service should have the power of the Spirit manifest, we should be seeing the gifts happen. It’s that simple. You have to provide a system in which those gifts flow – and you both enable those who have something from God to share, and those who are a little kooky and spooky toContinue reading “Just For Pastors 24: Take Charge of Your Service!”

Just For Pastors 23: Titles and Respect

If you want to survive in ministry, you need people not just to like you but to respect you. They need not just to relate to you, but they need to appreciate your fruitfulness. Now, at the end of the day, people are going to make their own choices, and many are stubborn, selfish andContinue reading “Just For Pastors 23: Titles and Respect”