Leadership Interview :: Chris Cravens
It has been sometime since I posted a leadership interview. Click here for the other interviews. This interview is with Rev. Chris Cravens. Chris pastors the Findley Bible Methodist Church in Findley Ohio and is involved in several leadership responsibilities in the Holiness movement. Enjoy the interview.
Who made the biggest influence in your life as a leader?
There are several people that impacted my life for ministry very early, the top three are:
Rev. James B. Keaton, Sr.
Dr. Marlin Hotle
Rev. William Gale
What gives you the greatest joy in being a leader?
Seeing a person hunger and seek after Christ.
The slight realization that God has used me in some moment in some way to accomplish His will in the life of another.
What is your biggest pet peeve as a leader?
When we seem to easily loose sight of the big picture & purpose of redemption & kingdom business, “The Great Commission”, and become focused on; personal comfort, sentiment spirituality, and ecclesiastical maneuvering and when we speak of our heritage as if it is only pertains to the last 60 years
What books have changed your life?
Without sounding clichéd – the Bible.
Spiritual Leadership – J. Oswald Sanders
The Knowledge of the Holy – A. W. Tozer
The Reality of Worship (also known as Real Worship) – Warren Wiersbe
What’s your biggest challenge as a leader?
Keeping balance in my life and ministry. Satan wants nothing more than to make one side of the wheel heaver than the other – it effects progress.
To accurately delineate between the good and the best of things
Having a greater impacting, discipling others in their walk of holiness.
What goals do you have as a leader?
Increase my spiritual sensitivity & ministerial productivity in answering God’s calling for me and my family.
Impact my immediate world for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Prepare myself to have a greater impact on another future generation.
Raise up Godly children for future impact.
What is the Holiness Movement’s greatest need?
A genuine revival of spiritual hunger, intellectual honesty and earnest evangelism.
I hope to make a contribution to the Conservative Holiness Church that will help us to better answer the greatest call of all; Loving God with all – loving others more!
