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Blog postIt can be lonely at the top.
You may be surrounded by people who adore you. Yet the pedestal where they put you is a lonely place.
Church problems rest on the shoulders of leaders—further isolation. Even the news is enough to drive you to distraction. Every time you read of the church shrinking or read an article attacking your beliefs you probably feel isolated from the culture. Certainly the downfall of prominent Christian leaders piles on feelings of retreat and isolation. -
Blog postAs shepherds of Jesus’ flock, we sometimes overlook the need for a bit of self-protection. Some friends are better than others—some friendships are dangerous (aside from sexual temptations).
Some are more pronounced in smaller churches, especially in newly planted congregations but all merit a look. Here’s the deal; there are people who long to control you!
My wife and I parachuted into our first church plant when I was 25. For a while, we had fri -
Blog postPastor’s families live in semi-isolation because congregations hold them on a pedestal. However, a larger problem is isolation of the pastor from their family.
This is because our jobs are never ending, and we get so busy we forget our personal priorities. Many pastors leave ministry because of root problem of loneliness in their own families.
As the pastor or leader of a church, you need to make sure that you spend enough time with your wife and -
Blog postLoneliness in leadership is never fun. It’s also less than necessary when it comes to living on a pedestal.
Pastors are often surrounded by people who elevate them as super Christians. We’re already called by God to live to a higher standard so it’s no fun being judged by one that is entirely artificial.
Are You Causing This?
And this may be your own fault. Pastors sometimes gather unrealistic authority while attempting to protect t -
Blog postPastors are leaving vocational ministry at an alarming rate. Coupled with slow church planting, the problem threatens the church’s existence. The pandemic accelerated the pain, but this is systemic and ongoing.
As we wonder what can be done, I want to spend a few weeks exploring possible solutions on this website.
This Is a Big Problem
The number one reason pastors who have left specify is that they quit due to intense feelings of i -
Blog postA recent trip to Orlando found me in my favorite restaurant—the one with the golden arches.
While stuffing my face with a Sausage McMuffin, I hummed to the piped-in music. Connecting the sounds with the auditorium where I spoke the day before took a while.
The “Aha, these people are bringing Jesus into McDonalds” soon faded into “but no one is paying attention to it.” I laud the attempt but feel frustrated that so much of what we try to do on an institutional level falls on st -
Blog postWould you consider yourself a security guard, a hoarder or an equipper?
You can describe most church leaders in one of these terms. We each feel the call to shepherd the flock God assigned us, but we do that in unique ways.
Much depends on our spiritual gifts, our community and even the availability of resources like money or accessible meeting space. Yet each is driven by a very different driver: our personal view of our task.
The motivation for personal security belo -
Blog postA friend recently revealed the “secret sauce” of Hope Chapels.
He told me, “this is something you never teach, but I learned it from you anyway.” So much for making disciples…
He said the secret sauce is that we established a root culture of communication at every level in our movement.
He discovered it in our disciplemaking continuum that asks people to communicate their communication with Jesus to one another, transparency tinted with action surfaces with little prog -
Blog postJuneteenth celebrations began in churches and rightly so. The holiday began one year after the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas. The Confederate army had surrendered months earlier but it was on June 19, 1865 that Union General Robert Granger read the liberating document in the streets of Texas. A year later the commemoration began. Jesus came … Why We Should All Celebrate the Juneteenth Holiday Read More »
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Blog postThirty-nine years ago, Aaron Suzuki and I moved our families to Hawaii from Southern California.
We had a strong church behind us yet had plans to start an automotive repair service as a bivocational fallback.
We didn’t anticipate strong spiritual hunger among the people we would meet. I would now admit that our years there triggered a “spiritual awakening.” It never felt like an awakening during those years as much as what the Living Bible called “steady plodding.”
We
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Your Book As Your Business Card: The Book Every Church Planter Should Write (Pastors as Authors 2)
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Let Go Of The Ring: The Hope Chapel Story
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How to Hire, How to Fire & How to Manage in Between
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You Could Write For Amazon: Beginning Steps For Beginning Authors (Pastors as Authors Book 1)
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Choices: Understanding God's Plans & Our Choices
Mar 20, 2016
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