Church Leadership: Five Keys To Success
So you’ve been asked by your church to take on a leadership role? You feel God’s tugging but your knees are shaking. Don’t worry! Here are five very practical and encouraging steps that help you be the leader God intends.
Whether a Bible teacher, a small group leader or the facilitator of a Sunday School class, Christian leadership brings lots of challenges.
We all get tired. Most Christian leaders are volunteers, meaning they have “day jobs” and family responsibilities and jam-packed schedules. But God intends your service and leadership to be joyful. He has raised you up to do the very task …
Anger is a Spirit
The Christian Church has a tendency to act in prejudice when echoing the clarion call against sin. We condemn sensational acts of disobedience such as fornication and adultery and drug abuse but overlook the more subtle infractions like lying and anger. When in fact the Bible declares the Devil is the father of lies and it was his wrath and jealousy against the most high that spurned a heavenly uprising.
Anger is a spirit and it operates unobstructed within the body of Christ. The narute of a spirit is that it is eternal. The Spirit of anger has coiled itself around …
A Sailor’s Craft
How was I going to turn the boat around without anyone noticing? The men I had invited out fishing were all depending on me. They had been so impressed with my abilities as a sailor, navigating the boat through the channels and shoals that led to the open water of the Gulf of Mexico. Just minutes earlier I had successfully dodged five forming waterspouts spawned by passing squalls and they had enthusiastically patted me on the back.
How could I let on that I had been going in the wrong direction for the last thirty minutes and that we may not …
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