Things I have Learned!

Just some thought of a few things I have learned in my short time in ministry.

• When you try to please everyone, you please no one. People are going to leave your ministry. We need to be willing to bless them, and let them go.
• Vision is what matters. A leader must always cast vision. People need to know where you are leading them.
• Expectations in the Church should be much higher than that of the rest of the world. Someone gave me a qoute one time that said...

"You always have to have bigger ideas than your life. If you want to be happy, lower your expectations; but the truth is, if you want to be great... raise them".

• Leaders spend way to much time pampering the complaining Christ follower, and less time reaching the unchurched.
• There is no other place on earth that I would rather serve at then lifeBridge!!!
• God shows me everyday how awesome He really is.
• Transition and change are positive things when you are totally relying on God.
• Relationships are what matter to God. For that is the only thing you can take to heaven with you.
• As a leader I need to surround myself with trustworthy, committed, passionate, and reliable men that have my back.

Well, these are just a few of many things that God has taught me over the last few years. There are many more and I will share them later.

Just some thoughts!

InHim,

Pastor Bobby

Disciplined!

I read a quote this week that simply said, "The first person you lead is you". WOW!

I think far to often than not, we as people, get so caught up in the rat race of life. That from the moment our alarm clock goes off until the last thing we remember is our head hitting the pillow. We are on the go. We are creatures of habit.

So as I read that qoute, I began to think. We as Christ followers get so obsessed with the things of life that we believe have to get done. That we truly miss out on what it actually is that should get done.

I have a friend, who has over the past several months kept reminding me that all God is asking is for us as His children is to "be still and know that He is God". A passage I believe is often quoted, but very rarely obeyed.

I have been asking myself what is it that God is trying to tell us there? Then it hit me. "shut up, slow down, and just listen". You know God wants to speak to us, the problem is that we are too busy to listen.

I don't know about you, but when I was a kid and didn't listen to my earthly father, there was some form of discipline. And what I have found out is that it was usually never very pleasant.

So my question is this, if we don't take the time to slow down and discipline ourselves to really find out what it is God is telling us to do, then how can we as Christ followers complain about some of the circumstances we have gotten ourselves in to?

Just some thoughts!

In Him,
Pastor Bobby