If you’re a growth group leader at New Day, here’s just one way you can lead your group through taking Communion… When God brought about a great deliverance for the Israelites from their slavery to Egypt (through Moses), He instituted a commemorative ordinance called Passover. In the same way, when God brought about an even greater deliverance for us from our slavery to sin (through Messiah), it was appropriate to institute another commemorative ordinance we now … [Read more...]
Why We Fail to Raise Up Other Leaders
Every church leader knows the story of Exodus 18 - how Moses used to do everything himself, but then switched to raising up others to help lead. It's hard to read a book on leadership or attend a pastor's conference without someone covering this all important topic. But what so few ever mention are the manifold reasons why most leaders never make the switch. Well, I'm so happy to have finally come across a book that specifically addresses this issue, called The Multiplication Effect by Mac Lake. … [Read more...]
Principles and People
As a supervisor you have to care about principles and people. It's imperative that you find an appropriate balance between caring about principles and people. Historically I've tended to lean towards caring more about principles than people, but have found a healthier balance by learning to ask three important questions anytime someone fails to live up to one of my principles. If the quarterly stats for the church are good and the quarterly stats for that person's department … [Read more...]
What to Look For in a Leader
WE KNOW FROM SCRIPTURE THAT GOD IS CONSTANTLY ON THE LOOK OUT FOR LEADERS BUT THE QUESTION BEGS: WHAT SPECIFICALLY DOES GOD LOOK FOR? FROM THIS WE LEARN WHAT JESUS LOOKED FOR IN A LEADER Like God the Father, God the Son looked for people with the right kind of heart. WHAT DID THE APOSTLE PAUL LOOK FOR? We are given insight into the answer as we consider the following two questions: Why did Paul select Timothy for leadership in the church? And why did … [Read more...]
A Theology of Volunteerism
Since we are launching a new location in Agawam this Fall, everyone is recruiting volunteers like crazy. You're either recruiting volunteers for the new location or trying to backfill volunteer roles in Enfield for people who are leaving to go help Agawam get up and running. That being the case, I think it's really important that (if you haven't already) you develop a proper theology of volunteerism, because if you don't your recruiting approach/tone will be all wrong. It's so important … [Read more...]
Balancing Withdrawals with Deposits
It might be helpful to think of every request you make of a volunteer as withdrawing money from the bank. If all you ever do is withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, the account will become, all too quickly, overdrawn. How do you prevent your account from being overdrawn? You have to be sure to make deposits! And the deposits have to be greater than the withdrawals. How do you make deposits in the volunteer bank? Call them to ask if there's anything you can be praying for. Invite them out … [Read more...]