Tag: Leadership

The Secret Source of Unlimited Leaders

Kevin Colon turned me on to this excerpt from Neil Cole’s latest book on leadership. (link below) It’s about where Jesus said to go to get leaders in the church.

Here are the things that got me:
1) The resources are in the harvest. That’s where our leaders of the near future should come from.

2) Most churches are sucking from the kingdom and not giving leaders to the kingdom. What is your church doing to farm new leaders, as opposed to just buying them at the grocery store?

3) The leader of the near future woke up this morning with a hangover… in the wrong bed.

4) There are more leaders than we could ever need all around our church right now.

5) We have to beg God for leaders. When was the last time you begged him for leaders in your church or ministry?

6) If there is a problem with the leadership development program in your ministry then you are probably not reaching people for Jesus.

The link: http://www.cmaresources.org/node/273

Update on “The Easter Initiative”

This Sunday at FOSM, I announced “The Easter Initiative.” It’s is a spiritual growth emphasis whose purpose is to encourage people to do the things they need to do to grow spiritually. It involves reading our Bibles, prayer, and inviting people to FOSM. In a few days there will be detailed info posted on our website at http://fosm.net.

I’m making a few changes based on my prayer time today. Now there will be three levels of completion to shoot for, instead of just one. What I announced Sunday will now be the “Gold” level. We are also going to add in a “Bronze” level and a “Silver” level. The point of the two new levels is not to wuss out by making things easier for some people but to give the best opportunity possible for each person to take the relationship with God to a “whole nuther level.”