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This is a repost from Swerve

Team Leadership

I don’t like committees. Big groups of people rarely make the best decisions and often slow things down.

When I talk about leading as a team, I am NOT talking about ministry by committees.

On any good team, there is a head coach. Someone must be in charge. But if the coach is wise, he’ll build a team of coaches.

In any ministry, I suggest the following:

• One leader who is ultimately responsible for the direction of the ministry.
• Three to seven people who become some sort of a leadership team. (Two is not enough. Three drastically improves the dynamics. More than seven becomes bulky. For some reason, I like odd numbers.) This could be an advisory team, executive team, leadership team, directional team, or whatever suits your purposes.
• When possible, the people on the team should be a diversified group.
• Each person has an equal voice—but the leader reserves the right to make the final call. (On our team, it has been years since I have overridden the wisdom of the team. I still reserve the right at any time to make the hard call.)

More to come.

Thoughts?

Ok, this past Sunday we talked about God’s Will and what He was doing in the Seacoast.  I expressed that I believed that it was God’s Will to see those who do not yet know Jesus in a real & personal way come to faith.  I also expressed that I felt it was God’s Will to see the poor of our community helped.

So my question for all of you out there is, What do you feel is God’s Will for our community?

So we started a new series of messages based on the Henry Blackaby book “Experiencing God.”  I have tuaght this material a few times over the years  to youth and in a small group setting, but at this point in our churches growth and development it seemed like it was time to teach it again.

So throughout the series I will be doing some “Extra” teaching via the blog; I hope it is helpful and please use the comments feature to ask questions so that I can help you dive deeper in your personal encounter with God.

Heads up everyone, this week I will be blogging about Pop Culture, Understanding Culture, Leveraging Culture, & about being immersed in the culture with being absorbed by it. This should make for some livingly discussions.

Also this week I will be posting more Bible Commentary so for this of you that like those blogs I will being shotting to post at least one a week.

A few months back I post the link to Unleash 2007 and titled it Perry Noble Kicked My Butt. Well here is the link to Unleash 2008 and yeah Perry did it again. Check it out very good messages and there are PDF’s for all the breakout sessions. Very cool, I hope to actually attend in person next years.

Lisa recently passed a book along to me to read, Jim and Casper Go to Church.

This is very cool book. Jim is a Pastor & Casper is an Atheist. They journey around the country visiting all kinds of churches, on the list as Saddleback, Willow, the Potter’s House, Imago Dei, Mosaic, the Dream Center, and a few others they even check out a service at Joel Osteen’s church. Anyway it is very interesting to see the commentary that Casper the Friendly Atheist has to offer. Granted he is not who we are most often targeting but he had a lot of good insights. One very good question he kept asking was, “Is this what Jesus told you guys to do?” While he comes across as very cynical in places he is very honest about his observations. One thing that really stuck out was Casper was impressed with the churches that did practical things to meet the needs of those in the community & turned off by the slick and polished presentations of the Megachurches. It is a very quick read and is definitely worth checking out.

I was driving around Thursday night and I turned in the local Christian station and I heard a voice that is very familiar to me. This particular communicator/teacher/pastor has been rocking my world since I recommitted my life to Christ at the age of 18. For the last 17 years this dude has been teaching me, challenging me, and encouraging me, and his books have done the same. So after all this time Greg Laurie is still the man. If you have never listen to him you can check out his radio show called “A New Beginning” or get his podcast, or check out his personal web site for other outlets of learning from him. Greg more than anyone else has influenced my teaching style so if you enjoy listen to me YOU WILL LOVE LISTENING TO HIM! So yeah Greg is still the man!!!!!!!!!!!!

Expelled – This is going to be awesome, I hope to be able to get to see it before it gets kicked out of theaters. Check out the website, there are a lot of great resources and info there.

Expelled Trailer

Trailer

Today is a great day, I got my copy of Pop Goes The Church.   Tim signed it himself, boy do I feel special.  I can’t wait to read it again. Yeah Baby Yeah!!!!!!!!!

I can’t say enough good things about Pop Goes The Church. This book is one of the best books that I have read in a long time. Tim has a way with words, it is witty, honest, well researched, and Freakin Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERY Christian needs to read this book. This book is going to liberate a lot of people and make a bunch really mad. I’m half way through my review and it just keeps getting better and better. Tim Stevens shots and he scores.