People Who Aren't Like Me

Reflecting this morning that almost all the people who have most strongly invested in my life are people with whom I don't agree about a variety of things. I could list lots of people, but over the years the 6 who  who have most gone out of their way to disciple me are, in no particular order: Nigel Pollock, Nigel Lee, Philip Warburton, Gareth Davies, John Risbridger and Tony Waktins. I honour these guys and love them to bits. I wouldn't be the person I am, doing what I do, without them.

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Immeasurably More?

Ephesians 3 attributes to God the ability, desire and will to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine. 

Do Christians actually believe this or not? How many people in your church actually expect God to do nothing in or through them or the church on a week by week basis?

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100 Leadership Lessons #14 Discipling People in the Ways of the Lord

Think hard to day about discipling people in the ways of the Lord as well as in the truths of the Lord.

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Living Leadership Media

Our new Living Leadership Resources site is now live. It is fairly small to start with but we have a good road map for increasing the number of useful resources and articles over coming months. I will probably eventually post all my leadership material there rather than here. 

Of interest may be the Growing in Pastoring section, which contains short articles on a wide variety of pastoral topics. If you want a first port of call to know what to do when someone in your church tells you, for example, that they are self-harming, we hope this will become the first place people will want to consult. 

100 Leadership Lessons #12 Be Honest When Things Aren't Right

Ok, maybe this is a provocative one. Evangelicals (like me) can find it too easy to sweep under the carpet things that aren't right because we think we are doing and believing all the right things

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All Souls Talks Available

Sadly the recent All Souls School of Evangelists wasn't recorded. My three main talks were:

• The Evangelist's Heart
• The Evangelist's Church
• The Evangelist's Home

I have uploaded transcripts of the talks over on the new LivingLeadershipMedia site here

100 Leadership Lessons #13 Don't Try to Reverse-Engineer Discipleship

Think of three things: Growing disciples Growing local church structures Growing church activities Which of these produces the most fruit for leaders' labours?

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