This is a devotional we shot for the Generation Church Family Day on July 17th 2011.
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What You Need In Your Leaders
We have just been through a season at GenerationChurchwhere we were full steam in action. Moving locations in the midst of the Easter season while rewarding was no less than hectic.
My blog took a back seat as others things had to take priority, but blogging is something I love and helps me as a leader and follow of Jesus Christ as much as anyone who reads this blog. So here we go, back in the swing of things.
Lately I’ve been thinking about the people I need around me so that as a church we can be everything God has designed us to be. I think the biggest headaches and anxieties a leader has, concerns the leaders around him or her. In a perfect world the team you have around you will all get on. They will have your back and you will have theirs. You will be able to be totally open and honest with them and they won’t think anything less than you. Everyone will work for the cause and there will be complete harmony!
Anyone who has lead leadership teams is probably saying, ‘in your dreams!’ Well, yes that is my dream. However, for that dream to happen, you have to have the right people around you, and you as a leader have to be prepared to invest time in those people.
I remember when we first planted our church; I believed the Lord gave me a word. He said, ‘surround yourself with people who believe in you and believe in what I have called you to do, one out of two isn’t good enough’. This word has come back to my mind over and over again. I have seen the people who are most effective have been the ones who believe in both me as a leader and the vision of where we are going. The people I have found myself hitting my head against the wall have been people who either didn’t completely believe in me but believed in what we were doing or believed in where we were going but still had questions about me.
When you have people who believe in both you & your vision, you have people who you will be able to dream with, laugh with, enjoy time with and most important lead your church or organization with.
Remember, one out of two isn’t good enough!
30 Days of Prayer: Day 28 – Endurance
Time is ticking down and only two days till the launch of Generation Church as a “theater church” Things have been very busy making preparations. Yesterday was Day 28 and it was quite ironic because we were praying for people’s endurance. The reason it was ironic is because we were distributing a few thousand door hanger invites to our local community. It was hot, I was fasting and my feet started to blister! Endurance was the word for the day and we finished what we planned on doing.
The thing about endurance is that it is only needed when life gets hard. Relationships need endurance and our faith needs endurance. There are times that we just want to give up because either things don’t go the way we want it to or because it just gets to difficult.
My prayer for people who come into contact with Generation Church is that they will gain a Godly endurance that will see them through the toughest of circumstances. It was the old patriarch Job who was known as a man who endured. He went through early hell and still stayed faithful to God.
The great thing about endurance is that if we discover it and hold on to it, there will come a day when we will break through the pain and life will become so rewarding!
Generation Church keep enduring till the end in your faith, in your relationships, in your commitment! There are incredible days ahead for you!
