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Thoughts on life and ministry with a hint of randomness.
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If you want to be understood, don’t speak to impress people, speak in a language and style people understand.Phil Cooke
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Tonight my wife and I are opening up our home to about 25 volunteer leaders from our church. We are looking forward to hanging out with them and getting to know them as we spend time together. This morning I read a passage of scripture that talks about having dinner with God. Could you imagine? In Psalm chapter fifteen David talks about what it takes to get on the guest list and how to avoid the blacklist. Listen to how the Message Bible describes it:
“God, who gets invited to dinner at your place? How do we get on your guest list? Walk straight, act right, tell the truth. Don’t hurt your friend, don’t blame your neighbor; despise the despicable. Keep your word even when it costs you, make an honest living, never take a bribe. You’ll never get blacklisted if you live like this.”
These are some pretty challenging prerequisites, some are more challenging than others for me personally. Could you imagine the impact our lives would have if we lived everyday like we are going to have dinner with God?
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God didn’t send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn’t send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center—Christ on the Cross—be trivialized into mere words.Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 1:17 MSG)
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The following is from “Developing the Leaders Around You” by John C. Maxwell:
“The greatest leadership principle that I have learned in more than thirty years of leadership is that those closest to the leader will determine the success level of that leader. The determination of a positive or negative outcome in my leadership depends upon my ability to recognize the value that others bring to my organization. My goal is not to draw a following that results in a crowd. My goal is to develop leaders who become a movement.”
“Stop for a moment and think of the five or six people closest to you in your organization. Are you developing them? Are they growing? Have they been able to lift your load?”
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Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.Arthur Gordon
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Photo reblogged from THOM_CHARLIE
Photo taken by my brother @joelhornstien at the Church on the Move Seeds Conference.
(Source: thomcharlie)
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The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
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Dream BIG. Think BIG.
Plan BIG. Work BIG.Remember… God is BIG and you are not. Follow after God and he will use you to make a BIG impact in this small world.
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Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.The Apostle Paul
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Love. That one word summarizes all that has been given to us and all that is required of us. God loves us and asks that in return we love him and love people. That’s it, that’s all that God requires of us. You don’t have to live a “great” life, you don’t have to acquire vast knowledge, you don’t have to do anything except love. Love God and love people.
Love your family.
Love your neighbor.
Love your boss.
Love the guy who cuts you off in traffic.
Love the cashier at the grocery store.
Love the lady in the car next to you at the traffic light.
Love the person that has offended you recently.
Love the homeless person that you pass on the way to work everyday. -
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.John Wooden
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.Albert Einstein
