Russ Robinson became pastor of Meadowbrook Church in Haledon, New Jersey, after seven years of service as Director of Small Groups at Willow Creek Community Church near Chicago, Illinois. With Bill Donahue, Robinson is author of Building a Church of Small Groups and The Seven Deadly Sins of Small Group Ministry.
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Why is the ministry's mission so important? It affects the church in numerous essential ways. Here are nine of them.
The Mission Dictates the Ministry's Direction
Before embarking on a flight, most people want to know where their plane is going. Otherwise, as Yogi Berra, the former New York Yankee catcher, once said, "If you don't know where you're going, you might end up somewhere else." Leaders and ...
Declaring and affirming strengths injects richer fuel into your team's engine, releasing greater effectiveness and the hope of personal fulfillment. But submitting to those declared strengths brings that hope to reality. Submission, in this sense, means intentionally letting another person guide and direct you.
This means we must know each other's strengths well enough to apply them to ...
This exercise provides a quick self-inventory of personal strengths—an information base for discovering who we are and declaring something about ourselves to others. Select the characteristics that apply to you in the context of your team. Check any word you think describes you from each column. Look at the columns to determine which best represented you, then study the characteristics ...
Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to establish the church. Though the Christian community was well on its way as a growing and influential church in the province of Asia, "certain men" had emerged and secured for themselves prominent leadership positions. Unfortunately, these men were anything but qualified to lead, both in terms of what they believed and taught and ...
I once worked at a church with a guy named Peter. Peter was an amazing communicator and vision-caster. When he spoke, I was motivated to dig deep to give my time, talents, and treasures for the mission. But as I did so and worked more closely with Peter, I learned that this gifted visionary was not a gifted administrator or implementer by any stretch of the imagination.
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