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Carey Nieuwhof: 7 Things Every Leader Should Banish Starting Today

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Carey Nieuwhof is one prolific blogger! In fact, he’s really in my top few favorites and I read every single post he writes.

In this recent post, Carey nailed it, and he nailed me on one of my biggest leadership struggles – fear! He says,

Fear is the thief of hope. It kills leadership. It murders courage.

Way too many leaders I know live in fear.

The difference between effective leaders and ineffective leaders is simple: all leaders feel fear. The effective ones push past it.

So what’s the antidote to fear?

While there are a few, believe it or not, I think one of the antidotes to fear is the fear the right thing.

If you’re going to be afraid, I suggest you fear this:

Be afraid of never accomplishing your mission.

Yep. Effective leaders find their boldness and push past fear.

So go for it!

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Dan Reiland: Why Are Some Churches More Evangelistic Than Others?

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Evangelistic churches are churches that reach and baptize lost people. They connect the disconnected to Christ’s body and see them mature and go on mission, reaching others.

Dan Reiland wrote an excellent post about this question…

If I can be blatantly candid, there two types of hospitality: surface friendly and genuinely welcoming. One results from training, the other comes from the heart. In one case, it’s what the ushers and greeters read in a manual, and in the other, it comes from a love they have for people.

Don’t get me wrong. We need the manuals and training. We really do. But our job as leaders is to encourage and inspire the deeper reason to reach more people. It’s certainly not about numbers. It’s the fact that each person matters to God and therefore matters to us!

When we genuinely love people, it’s nearly irresistible.

He offers up five evaluation questions for church leaders to ask:

  1. Are you proud of your church?
  2. Do you model the example?
  3. Can you un-clutter your church calendar?
  4. Do you welcome guests with amazing hospitality?
  5. Do you understand the law of numbers?

We certainly need as many churches as possible to rise to their evangelistic potential!

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Daryl Cornett: For the Church, Lost People Come First

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The last thing I say at the end of every one of our church’s Membership classes (GH 101) is, “As soon as you sign this church covenant, it ceases to be about you. You join arms with this church and turn outwardly together.

I believe that. The church doesn’t exist for itself, but for the lost.

Pastor Daryl Cornett captures this well in a recent blog post…

We need to get over people who are chronically unfaithful and uninvolved. We need to stop strategizing how to get them back. We need to care for these folks as well, but at some point we need to cut them loose and go invite others. The lost are all around us. They need to always be our first and greatest passion.

It’s a message the church needs to hear, loud and clear.

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