Worshipping and fasting. That's a good pattern for a church and church leaders to be in when they are seeking God for fresh Spirit-led initiatives. Getting close to God and seeking Him. Fasting and praying means casting ourselves on his will and actively putting aside our own. Saying to Him "we want you more than food, and we want the revelation of your purposes for us more than food" is something God takes seriously.
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It made me think about how crucial it is to have ambitions for the next generation to exceed us. How good am I at encouraging the next generation to be heroes of the faith, with a real sense of gospel adventure? Nowhere near as good as I want to be.
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What are you looking for in your team? How do you want to disciple your team? You are after people for whom the glory of God being magnified in the church is – or will clearly become – their consuming passion
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In the absence of clear boundaries between work and non-work for us, our drift is always upwards towards doing more and away from ministering with a quiet spirit. We can a lot but find that none of it is fresh any more. Large quatities of ministry isn’t necessarily good ministr
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what do leadership patterns look like for me that allow me to lead out of a place of stillness with God, joy in God and a personal, white hot passion for the glory of God? What leadership patterns would make me stray out and stay out of that place? What will put me, for the long haul in a place of spiritual vitality and capacity, what demands would put me in a place of long term attrition for my soul?
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