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- Pursuit is a big part of what 20-30 something’s are looking for.
Todd Phillips, pastor of Frontline in Washington, D.C.:
- What percentage of energy and time do each of you as leaders give to:
- Leading Inwardly (leading yourself)
- Leading Laterally (team members of peers)
- Leading Up (those over you)
- Leading Down (those under you)
- What are you neglecting?
- It is God that gives and God that takes away; He is the sources of any and all blessing we experience in this life
- God is not concerned with success as we define it; rather He is deeply concerned that we become more like Christ.
- All of our pursuits on this earth pale in comparison to the importance of developing the inner person.
- "A Christian leader will be crushed under the weight of his own gifts and talents if he does not develop his inner man." -Lon at McLean Bible Church
- "Leaders need internal strength to handle the load of modern leading" -Alan Nelson
- Pursue developing your inner life over everything else
- We need:
- Aloneness, soul-making solitude and contemplation
- Journaling
- Fasting
- Sabbath
- Observance
- Extended Prayer Times
- Prayer
- Most spiritual leaders have work very hard at their prayer life. Reasons:
- They are self-reliant and action-oriented
- There are many demands on their time
- Spiritual talk can be confused for spiritual practice
- We cannot compensate for a lack of time in prayer by developing our strengths in other areas. A deficiency in prayer can only be countered with time in prayer
- Communal and Mutual Ministry
- Engage in ministry with others
- Communal living allows others to pour into us
- We are meant to be in community
- Incarnational
Tim Ross, Potter’s House Young Adult Leader
- Cross Pollination
- Expand your perspective and mind-set to other points of view
- Be bold, Be beneficial, Be brilliant
- Not everything you are going to hear is going to fit with your group of people.
- Know what your congregation needs, not just what everybody else is doing
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Glad you enjoyed the event–blessings on you and your community! Best, Margaret
Prayer is really very powerful that you can rely on at all times.
Shaneen, I have recently been talking about prayer with our new mission pastor and hearing him pray during our meetings or when I walk by his office has been inspiring. God is doing some great things in his mission plant. We have started praying together as a staff at the church and I believe that it is going to help bring us together.
Margaret, thanks for stopping by. I really enjoyed your session and look forward to seeing more of your teachings when my DVDs come in.