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Perry Noble: 10 Signs a Leader is Losing It

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Perry Noble offers some good wisdom, and a strong warning, from the life of the Old Testament King, Saul.

#1 – The ministry he leads moves from being about the name of God to the name of the leader.  (Compare I Samuel 14:35 with I Samuel 15:12!)

#2 – He gets impatient with the process that God is taking him through and thereby tries to “make something happen” rather than waiting on God’s timing.  (I Samuel 15:5-10)

#3 – He makes self centered leadership decisions that slow down the people he works with rather than empowering them.  (I Samuel 15:24—notice the references to himself in this verse.)

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John Worcester: Planting Churches from New Believers

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John Worcester is a fantastic leader in the church planting world and he has some not-so-revolutionary, revolutionary views about how to plant churches with new believers…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sqIfNzrrFo

Video originally posted on Exponential’s Blog

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Charles Swindoll: Focusing On the Facts, Not the Fear

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Chuck Swindoll is a hero among pastors, a fantastic communicator with a pastor’s heart. And he’s also a seminary president, so his theology is quite robust as well. On his site for pastors, he wrote:

Thinking theologically can be a tough thing to do—even for us pastors. That’s because we focus most of our energy and attention on what I all “the horizontal” aspects of ministry. Thinking vertically is a discipline few have mastered.

We much prefer to live in the here-and-now realm, seeing life horizontally as others see it, dealing with realities we can . . .

  • Touch
  • Analyze
  • Prove
  • Explain

We are much more comfortable with the tactile, the familiar, the logic shaped by our culture and lived out in our times.

But God offers a better way to live—one that requires faith as it lifts us above the drag and grind of our immediate little world…

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