The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.
I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it’s what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.
If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.
Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.
Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.
As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.
Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.
My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.
Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it.
There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.
Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.
Leaders love progress.
Leaders are all about what isn’t and what-needs-to-be be.
When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.
The reason we’re here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner’s heart over the state of children.
God uses broken-hearted leaders.
To understand why, submit and apply.
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.