Pastors

More power: we want it. Everyone from Tony Stark to Lord Voldemort wants it. They want it bad. Doc Brown’s 1.21 Gigawatts aren’t enough—somewhere in eternity Captain Kirk is still barking, “More power, Scotty.”

Contextualization is not giving people what they want to hear but it is giving people biblical answers to the questions people are asking their particular time and place.

The problem of evil and suffering moves from the philosophical to the personal in a moment of time.

No one is "just" a Sunday school teacher. No one is "just" an offering taker. No one is "just" a bringer of meals to the sick. No one is "just" a deacon. There is no "just."

Not to say that a large crowd is bad, but the mere fact of its size causes us to act more passively, even in church. So even in unfriendly churches we put on our polite crowd-smile and become an audience.

Honor means to ascribe value, give recognition, and show appreciation.

One of the things many leaders struggle with the most is loneliness. Many feel like everyone wants something from them. They don’t know who to trust. Therefore, many leaders want to know if there is a criteria on how to recognize if someone is a true friend or not.

Leaders love to win. To make progress. To see results. The bigger, the better. Meanwhile, the small victories, the everyday wins, go by unnoticed. And therein lies the problem.