Tag: ministry
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“What Do You Need?”
This one phrase may capture the essence of being an associate leader more than any other. Here’s why: Being an associate leader of any kind means having to spend some of your time following and some of your time leading. For the most part, that means having to develop two different but overlapping sets of…
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Text me 3 times that work for you, and I’ll pick one.
Just because people think something is urgent doesn’t mean it is. As a pastor you want to be available to those who need you, but every pastor has had meetings that were honestly a waste of time. This one sentence can save you from wasting your time in meetings that can’t have genuine impact. Here’s…
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Four Minutes and Forty-Seven Seconds of Healing
I had eight minutes between meetings, and I was a mess. I had just walked out of a phone meeting in which a mother described her son’s recent, brutal murder. I was about to walk into a meeting with a local politician. My body gently shook as I strove to compose myself. I was down…
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Three Keys to Finding Freedom as a Follower
Associate Leaders experience a unique tension. They are leaders, but not senior leaders. An Associate Leader doesn’t operate independently; he is part of a coordinated whole, and his is not the coordinating hand. Which raises a question: will you see your role as offering you greater freedom or greater frustration? Some Associate Leaders choose frustration. …
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The Hidden Secret to Gaining Volunteers
There is a carefully hidden secret that can unleash waves of new volunteers into the ministries of your church. If you are a pastor it can be harnessed to release new men and women into everything from youth group to ushering to men’s ministry to small group leading. If you are a ministry leader, it…
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Five Keys to Disagreeing with Your Senior Leader
Every Associate Leader will eventually disagree with the Senior Pastor. At some point it might even become a passionate disagreement. This is only natural when someone is a leader in his own right but is serving under the leadership and vision of someone else. Whenever this happens it is important for the Associate Leader (and…
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