If you cannot communicate with others, you could have the best vision and strategy for extending the kingdom of God but unless you can communicate it, you might as well not even have it. So, the first rule of communication is that it is two-way. You have to learn to speak and listen. You haveContinue reading “Essential Steps to Leading 06 Communicate Better (One to One)”
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Essential Steps to Leading 05 Stay in Your Lane!
God has designed us all to be unique. And I believe that God has given each of us a lane that when we stay in it, we seem almost super-human to others. A super-power. You have certain skills and abilities that come easier to you than others, that you can handle more efficiently, that produceContinue reading “Essential Steps to Leading 05 Stay in Your Lane!”
Essential Steps to Leading 04 Keep Learning
One of the worst things you can do as a leader ever is stop learning. To reach your potential as a leader you have to keep learning. One of the phrases I believe in so much is lifelong learner. Right now I am doing my DMin, I am doing a course on how to mentorContinue reading “Essential Steps to Leading 04 Keep Learning”
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!”
Inspiring and Challenging Dreamers 