Tweaks for Preachers

 

• Preach faith, not frustrations.
• Never obsess on one individual in the congregation.
• The Word is food, not weaponry.
• Pull, don’t push.
• Beating down a door is a criminal act.
• Questions are not threats.
• 100% success is not possible.
• People do love you.  Love them back.
• Not everyone who responds cheers.
• A cheer leader succeeds if the audience cheers, if that’s all you  want.
• You may be full-time, but your people are not.
• Don’t force everyone into the same mold.
• Not every fight is a good fight. 
• In the church, silence does not give consent.
• You get what you preach.
• Training is the hardest, but most rewarding work.
• Talk to children if you want vibrancy.
• Talk to young people if you want to know what’s going on.
• Talk to working people if you want to know about stressors.
• Talk only to a few elites if you want to be warped.
• Talk to the elderly if you want to know truth.
• Talk to your family if you want to know what others are thinking.
• Talk to nobody if you want to shrink into irrelevance.
• Talk to God if you want direction.
• People change through education, not sensation.
• Make form follow function.
• The seeds of truth need the preparation of the plow.
• Diversity for diversity’s sake is demeaning.
• Lead people to God; don’t become their god.
• Don’t blink.  Nothing is NOT happening.
• Leadership is largely optics.
• To love is not only to feel, but to act.
• You cannot say yes to something without saying no to something else.
• Inspiration is a quivering mass of protoplasm unless you have a skeletal structure.
• The will of God most often guts the will of man.
• Leadership needs consensus, but often forgoes companionship.