#4 - A Few Other Thoughts…
Today is Friday…so I thought I would conclude this series with a few other bullet points of the dangers of leadership…
- Loving the church more than you own family…and sacrificing them, justifying it by saying Christ will make up for your shortcomings at home.
- Not asking for help…and allowing the load to completely crush you. (You are NOT a super hero…stop trying to be!)
- Allowing the weekly attendance to set your mood for the week.
- Thinking that everyone who begins to journey with you will also cross the finish line with you.
- Not trusting others because you’ve been burned in the past.
- Believing the lie that you can’t be friends with the people that you lead.
- Being more obsessed with who links your blog or retweets your twitter than doing ministry.
- Expecting people to do what you think they should do rather than speaking your expectations to them.
- Trying to handle conflict through email! (It DOES NOT WORK!)
- Believing that just because a program worked in another church that it will work in yours.
- Thinking that the next series is the key to unlocking the growth engine in your church.
- Believing that you are not successful because you don’t have the largest and/or fastest growing ministry.
- Not taking your calling seriously (Hebrews 13:17)
- Not taking God led steps of faith. (Hebrews 11:1)
- Living for the applause of men and not the applause of heaven.
- Not getting enough rest.
- Not dating your spouse.
- Not coming to Unleash! (Sorry…I had to throw that one in there!)
- Not fixing our eyes on Jesus…who called us…equipped us…empowered us…enabled us to do what we do.
- Giving up when He has PROMISED He will carry on to completion what He began! (Philippians 1:6)