Archive for January, 2006

44 Things I Learned The Hard Way: Part 4

Monday, January 30th, 2006

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Here are the final 11 Lessons:
34. Develop a priestly ministry to your people; write one-fiftieth of your people each week and tell them you are going to be praying for them in th upcoming week; ask them to send you their specific prayer requests.  

35. Set a goal to write down a few Biblical insights and/or sermon […]

44 Things I Have Learned The Hard Way: Part 3

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

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Here are the next 11 Lessons:
23. Effective pastors have a mentoring/teaching ministry as well as a preaching ministry.
24. Great leaders speak their vision into existence; they shape the institutions they serve with words.
25. Resources follow vision.
26. The most important things we do in ministry are often not what we do but what we do […]

44 Things I Gave Learned The Hard Way! Part 2

Friday, January 20th, 2006

As promised here are the next 11 Lessons:
12. Few people ‘fail’ in ministry if they learn to say the four ‘magic’ words: ‘I need your help.�
13. Hire a “world-classâ€Â? team of equippers as your staff, you cannot hire enough doers to  get the job done, the best people usually cost you the most money [never hire people […]

44 Things I have Learned the Hard Way

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

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Alex encouraged me to post a list I came up with as I was reflecting on 44. These are not the only lessons I have learned in life, but these stand out as ones I learned through the school of hard knocks. Hopefully they will prove helpful to the MRC community, to other communities of […]


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