Author Archives: Tree of Life Church

Before Jesus Christ was born, the greatest leader who ever lived was Moses. He was the leader of two-three million people, and those people were faithless, whining, moaning, complaining, cowards! That must have been hard work, exhausting. Moses was getting more and more tired, and the people were not getting good wisdom from him. TheContinue reading “How to Make Someone Else A Better Leader 05 The More You Lead, the More You Need (Leaders)”

The people who have influenced you most in your life are the people who believe in you! It really is that simple and straightforward. That faith in others creates a supernatural space for them to grow. All of us who want to raise up others must believe in them and create space for them. YouContinue reading “How to Make Someone Else A Better Leader 04 Create a Space for Leaders”

I am surrounded by a team of wonderful people. I am surrounded by some great leaders. It has taken a lot of time to invest in these people, a lot of faith to believe in them, and a lot of humility to let them take the spotlight from me. It is not easy raising leaders,Continue reading “How to Make Someone Else a Better Leader 03 What’s So Good About Raising Leaders”

I don’t really like confrontation, and that’s not a bad thing. In fact, Paul told Timothy not to appoint a “striker” as an elder (1 Tim 3.3), and a striker is someone who is always ready for a fight. However if we are to lead, we must confront. Someone is going to teach someone inContinue reading “My 5 Principles of Confrontation”

I remember fondly the TV series Heroes, where Peter Petrelli was told that if he saved the cheerleader, he would save the world. What a joy to have such a simple way to save the whole world – just to save one person. But if you are a leader in the body of Christ, andContinue reading “How to Make Someone Else a Better Leader 03 Bigger Leaders Have Bigger Groups”

If you read Psalm 23 which is a revelation of Jesus as our pastor and the benefits of being in a local church, one of the wonderful blessings is a cup that runs over. You could translate that as: more than enough. Greg Mohr likes the phrase “enough and extra”, others use the word abundance.Continue reading “Be Bold 01 It Makes Satan and Religious people nervous!”

I am going to give you a very simple mental exercise I do when I decide if someone is a potential leader. Right, I want you to imagine it is Sunday morning and church starts in ten minutes. And something has gone wrong. There is a fight in the worship group that has turned vicious,Continue reading “How to Make Someone Else a Better Leader 02 Who Around You Is A Potential Leader”

Every leader should be fruitful. One of the hallmarks of fruitfulness is to reproduce what you are. Christians should reproduce more Christians. Leaders should produce more leaders, apostles should produce apostles, pastors should produce pastors, and so on. You bear fruit according to your kind. I wonder about people who have pastored for decades andContinue reading “How to Make Someone Else a Better Leader 01 You Had Better Be Making People Better Leaders”

When times are uncertain, you have to keep the dream big, like I said in the last post. But at the same time how you get from here to there may change. Our dream is our destination, and if it is a God-given dream then you must absolutely hold onto the dream and keep theContinue reading “Dealing With Uncertainty 06: Be A Change Carrier”

I used to run a McDonald’s restaurant. No one ever once came in and asked for a fillet steak with peppercorn sauce. If someone did we would all think they were weird. We all know what we get when we go there. Our job wasn’t to do something new but do what we were knownContinue reading “Dealing With Uncertainty 05 Do What You Do Well”