God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
Ideally, a good pastor wants to empower a congregation to the point where they don't need him. You want everyone to leave feeling better.
Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.
Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision.
Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.
Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.
