- Don’t assign giftings. Identify them.
- Misdiagnosis of people’s negatives or positives lead to problems.
- Set people free to pursue and express their talents.
- Gush sincerely over people. They love it.
- Be careful who you make a hero.
- Articulate your vision clearly to your ministerial staff. They are your mouthpieces.
- More than anything, people expect spirituality out of you.
- “Flying off the handle” refers to an axe head. Collateral damage ensues.
- Produce proof, receipts, and guarantees even when they’re not requested.
- Be like Jesus. He was the first and the last.
- Eventually, you get paid not just for what you do, but for who you are.
- Extreme makeovers of your person make people nervous.
- Fanaticism is mindless devotion. Authentic devotion is based on sound theology.
- Celebrate intentionally.
- Make sure people know you are trying to help them.
- It’s what you do with the church’s money that counts.
- Decibel level bears no proportional relationship to veracity.
- Truth is powerful, whether whispered or shouted.
- From Oscar Wilde: “True friends stab you in the front.”
- You cannot alienate everybody.
- Inadvertency kills.
- Preach to your people’s needs, not your own.
- Better to preach thirty minutes than one minute thirty times.
- Words are like water: too much can drown.
- If you fail to create the church’s atmosphere, someone else will.
- Always give people a reason to come back.
- Deliberate quietness permits the Spirit to work.
- Don’t preach through the altar service.
- Leading in worship means leading people to worship.
- Feeling isn’t everything, but it’s not bad to feel good.