Unleashing the Power or Rubber Bands
I just finished reading Nancy Ortberg’s newest book titled, Unleashing the Power or Rubber Bands: Lessons in non-linear Leadership. It will go down as one of the best books on leadership that I have ever read.
Nancy encourages you, through her unique writing style, to breath new life into your style of leadership by:
- naming someone’s giftedness
- offering hope
- vision inspiration
- give of yourself as a leader
- paying attention to the needs of your team
- learn to identify defining moments
Three components of a powerful crucible of development are opportunities, challenges, and a relationship.The core of leadership is hope.To lead well, we must possess the strong belief that our best days are ahead of us, always ahead of us.Sometimes the gift of hope is about beleiving in others before they can even see it themselves.Vision is about creating a reason to believe again.Fear produces poor leadership and poor leadership produces bad organizations.
John Maxwell :: What a Difference a Day Makes
Saturday evening, I went to Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens to hear John Maxwell preach. This was the first time that I heard him speak live, and as usual, he did a great job. Here are some thoughts that I wrote down.
“Oh, What a Difference a Day Makes”
The big days stand out, but every day counts.
Successful people make important decisions early in their lives, then they manage those decisions the rest of their lives.
Four Make-a-difference decisions:
1. I will make a difference for myself.
2. I will make a difference for others.
3. I will make a difference with others (teamwork).
4. I will partner with the difference maker (God).
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!
Preventing Silos in Church
It is all too common in the church world to hear of competing rivalries, even in the same church.
How can ministries begin to get rid of”silos” in their ministries? I love what Mark Waltz says, “Decide what the main thing is”. A friend of mine in college was famous for saying, “keep the main thing the main thing”.
Interesting reading along this line can be found in the following links from Mark Waltz.
Semester-based Ministry
Ben Arment posted today about his church doing ministry on a semester basis. I love the idea that it gives you 4 starting/stopping points per year for your church volunteers.
