STOP making worship leaders and thought leaders the most influential people in Christendom.

Vă recomand să citiți acest articol.Este exact ceea ce se întâmplă în multe Biserici din America, iar acest model este preluat, din păcate, de Biserici românești.
„We must STOP making worship leaders and thought leaders or influencers or cool people or „relevant” people the most influential people in Christendom. (And yes that includes people like me!) I’ve been saying for 20 years (and seemed probably quite judgmental to some of my peers) that we are in a dangerous place when the church is looking to 20 year old worship singers as our source of truth. We now have a church culture that learns who God is from singing modern praise songs rather than from the teachings of the Word…”

https://www.charismanews.com/culture/77596-skillet-lead-singer-stop-making-worship-leaders-thought-leaders-the-most-influential-people-in-christendom

The Most Important Aspect of Leadership: Passing It On | Dr. Myles Munroe

„The greatest act of leadership is mentoring…”

„What is leadership? Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration, generated by a passion, motivated by a vision, birth by a conviction, produce by a purpose.”

„Leaders never seek to be leader. Every true leader in history was a reactive person, they didn’t want to be a leader.”

„Most of the leaders that you call leaders in my definition could be professional manipulators. They manipulate your fears, your need for approval, your need for recognition and they play with your feelings …” True leaders never manipulate, they inspire.”

 

The Priority of Character in Leadership – Dr. Myles Munroe

Shocking Evangelism Statistics!

https://bible.org/illustration/evangelism-statistics

„Ninety-five percent of all Christians have never won a soul to Christ.
Eighty percent of all Christians do not consistently witness for Christ.
Less than two percent are involved in the ministry of evangelism.
Seventy-one percent do not give toward the financing of the great Commission.

One particular denomination did a survey on its leadership ministries. The results are as follows:

• 63% of the leadership in this denomination, including deacons and elders, have not led one stranger to Jesus in the last two years through the method of “Go Ye” evangelism.
• 49% of the leadership ministries spend zero time in an average week ministering outside of the church.
• 89% of the leadership ministries have zero time reserved on their list of weekly priorities for going out to evangelize.
• 99% of the leadership ministries believe that every Christian, including leadership, has been commanded to preach the gospel to a lost world.
• 97% believe that if the leadership had a greater conviction and involvement in evangelism, that it would be an example for the church to follow.
• 96% of the leadership believe their churches would have grown faster if they would have been more involved in evangelism.

Because of this, our results in evangelism have been mediocre, at best.

“Street Level Evangelism, Where is the Space for the Local Evangelist,” by Michael Parrott, Acts Evangelism, Spokane, WA, 1993, pp. 9-11.”

9 Marks of an Unhealthy Church

By  Kevin DeYoung

April 11, 2018

„Thanks to Mark Dever, many of us have become well acquainted with the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church. While these were never meant to be the last word on everything a church should be or do, the nine marks have been helpful in reminding Christians (and pastors especially) of the necessary substance we often forget in an age fixated on style…”

1. The more peripheral the sermon topic, the more excited the people become.

2. The church staff does not enjoy coming to work.

3. The pastor and his wife do not get along.

4. Almost no one knows where the money goes.

5. The leadership team never changes or always changes.

6. No one is ever raised up from the church for pastoral ministry or sent from the church into missionary service

7. There is a bottle neck in decision making.

8. The preaching has become erratic.

9. There are issues everyone knows about but no one talks about openly. 

Leaders accountability

„Good leaders know that power can be seductive, and they understand their own fallibility. To be a leader and deny this is to put yourself in danger. Over the years, I’ve read about many leaders who failed ethically in their leadership. Can you guess what they had in common? They all thought it could never happen to them. There was a false sence of security…” 

John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold, p15, 16

8 Commitments Leaders Owe Their Teams

„A leader can’t exist without people to lead—treat them well.”

David Staal, president, Kids Hope USA

„Leadership is like parenting in that you can’t truly understand much until you actually do it…

1. To provide clear answers whenever possible instead of peppering people with question after question until they arrive at your answer…

2. To provide no answer when you don’t know how to respond or don’t have adequate time to think through the situation…

3. To appreciate a job well done regardless of the results…” Read more

Source: Christianity Today

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