Tree of Life Church

Essential Steps to Leading 03 Get Some People Skills!

Listen, if you are going into your vision but no one is coming with you, you are not a leader, you are person on a walk. You have to develop some people skills! It’s amazing how many pastors and leaders don’t have people skills. Some are only interested in speaking to those who can promote them and theirContinue reading “Essential Steps to Leading 03 Get Some People Skills!”

Essential Steps to Leading 02 Have Dream Time

One of the most important keys to leadership, whether it is being a pastor, a manager, a dad, a mum, a living church leader, a head chef, or anyone who wants to influence others for good and for the kingdom of God, is that you must have dream time. You have to set aside andContinue reading “Essential Steps to Leading 02 Have Dream Time”

Essential Steps to Leading 01 Lead Yourself First

One of the essential things to being an effective leader is to lead yourself first. You cannot have a leader who cannot lead themselves. You cannot pastor if you cannot pastor yourself, you cannot usher if you cannot usher yourself into a place of peace, you cannot be a worship leader if you cannot lead yourself toContinue reading “Essential Steps to Leading 01 Lead Yourself First”

Pastor’s Don’t Do This 25 Being Light About the Things of God

Last week, I asked someone who was working for the church in the finance department to give money to two ministries and they refused. They said the money should be given later when other things were done. They were light about the things of God. They were not taking God seriously, and putting His commands to give andContinue reading “Pastor’s Don’t Do This 25 Being Light About the Things of God”

Pastors Don’t Do This 24: Being Super Mature

We should all be mature, there’s something ugly about an immature leader, but some leaders get so mature they start believing their own press, they take themselves far too seriously, and they forget how to have fun. They then lose humility. We have to enter the kingdom like children (Matthew 18.3) – and often pastors are theContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 24: Being Super Mature”

Pastors Don’t Do This 23: Receiving Glory from Men 03 Receiving Glory from Men Makes it Impossible to Preach Prosperity

I have taken up a number of very successful offerings in my life. I have raised 30000 Euros in one offering in one conference, I have raised 17000 pounds in one offering in our summer conference, and I once raised nearly 40000 pounds when Andrew Wommack came to speak for us last year. To getContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 23: Receiving Glory from Men 03 Receiving Glory from Men Makes it Impossible to Preach Prosperity”

Pastors Don’t Do This 22: Receiving Glory from Men 02 Receiving Glory from Men Will Cause You to Miss a Move of God!

We have, in planting in 17 different locations around the UK, sometimes had to start services in locations that were not ideal, in situations that were not ideal, we haven’t had a worship leader, the room needed a lick of paint – and maybe a clean. It took a while to find, and we didn’tContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 22: Receiving Glory from Men 02 Receiving Glory from Men Will Cause You to Miss a Move of God!”

Pastors Don’t Do This 21: Receiving Glory from Men 01 What Do You Mean Receiving Glory From Men!

John 5.44 in the ESV says: How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? When you receive glory from other people you cannot at the same time believe and trust God. That’s what Jesus said and I believe Him! OneContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 21: Receiving Glory from Men 01 What Do You Mean Receiving Glory From Men!”

Pastors Don’t Do This 20: Not Bearing Fruit!

What glorifies God? If you asked 100 pastors the answer to that question, I bet you would get 100 answers, and very few of them would be from the Word of God. But the Bible is clear on this: Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit (John 15.8). The way to glorifyContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 20: Not Bearing Fruit!”

Pastors Don’t Do This 19: Not Putting First Things First 04 Clean the Inside First!

Jesus tells us in Matthew 23.26 NLT: You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too. You see part of being a Pharisee pastor (as outlined in a lot of previous posts in this series) is that all that matters to you isContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 19: Not Putting First Things First 04 Clean the Inside First!”