Asking good questions is essential to life and ministry. They expose assumptions. Questions reveal stories. They offer insight and feedback. They engage learners and apply truth in a non-confrontational way. We need good questions! If you're going to teach, if you're going to understand, if you're going to provoke discussion, you must learn to ask good questions. How to … [Read more...] about The Best Questions to Ask
Characteristics of High-Impact Teams
A healthy team is an important part of ministry success. Let me illustrate. Teaming... Generates new ideas.Pools resources.Boosts moral.Minimizes personal faults. Furthermore, the team approach to ministry also seems to best embody the Pauline imperatives for the church. Paul urges the church to live in unity and use one another's gifts and abilities. So if … [Read more...] about Characteristics of High-Impact Teams
The Ironic Secret to Progress
The secret to progress may not be seeing your desired future but seeing your current cycles. Let me explain. In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge argues for systems thinking. We must change from thinking in lines to thinking in circles. In other words, we must stop thinking in simple terms of linear cause and effect. Rather, we must begin to see the larger cycles or … [Read more...] about The Ironic Secret to Progress
From Celebrity Pastor to Simple Journeyman
In a world of celebrity and appearances and protocol, I am so impressed with this story Tim Challies relays: "It was a long time ago, in the summer of 1966, that Doug (Nichols was working for Operation Mobilization and was stationed in London during their big annual conference. He was assigned to the clean-up crew. One night at around 12:30 AM he was sweeping the steps at … [Read more...] about From Celebrity Pastor to Simple Journeyman
Wrecked by Jeff Goins
WRECKEDWhen a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable LifeBy Jeff Goins Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into Your Comfortable Life by Jeff Goins describes the journey from complacency to sensitivity, from indifference to compassion. Being "wrecked" is the moment we awaken to and begin this journey. It is that moment on a mission trip when you see true poverty for the … [Read more...] about Wrecked by Jeff Goins