Issue #344
1/23/2008
Seven errors to avoid if you want your ministry to last
by Rick Warren

A lot of ministries begin with a bang and then plateau. I’ve seen this happen thousands of times with all kinds of ministries. But God doesn’t want our ministries to stagnate. In this issue, we’ll look at seven common leadership traps to avoid if you want your ministry to succeed.

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Creating baby steps to commitment – part one
by Tom Holladay

If we want our people to grow spiritually, we’ve got to create baby steps that lead them to the next commitment. If we don’t create life-changing pathways to growth, we’ll lose a lot of people along the way. Over the next two issues, Pastor Tom Holladay shares practical suggestions on how to lead your members to take the next step.

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Preventing Ministry Failure
Michael Todd Wilson and Brad Hoffman (InterVarsity, 2007)  

Pastors need relationships with other pastors. It’s that simple. This book provides a great resource for a small group of pastors to go through together. The material focuses on seven common precursors to ministry failure, including lack of meaningful relationships, inadequate stress-management skills, and underdeveloped leadership skills. Besides being ideal for small groups of ministers (or church staff members), it’s also a nice guide for a more experienced pastor to go through with a novice pastor in a mentoring session.

 
   


"Regardless of the cause, none of your problems could happen without God’s permission. Everything that happens to a child of God is Father-filtered, and he intends to use it for good even when Satan and others mean it for bad." - Rick Warren



"No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it." - 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV)



Regional Purpose Driven Youth Ministry conferences -

You don’t have to travel to Southern California to learn the Purpose Driven Youth Ministry model from Saddleback practitioners. Two regional PDYM conferences are coming to Dallas, Texas, and Jacksonville, Fla.


Scrib Link -

On this site you can use an online whiteboard to make drawings and e-mail it to yourself. You can use the site for fun or you can combine it with the chat features on the site to have an online meeting complete with the ability to use a whiteboard.


Free biblical training classes -

Noted New Testament scholar Bill Mounce has a great online Bible training institute. Scholars like Craig Blomberg, Bruce Ware, and Paul House have joined Mounce to provide these free classes in several downloadable audio formats. Class tracks for lay and professional ministers are available.


Saddleback resources available on new website -

A new website consolidates all the resources produced by Rick Warren and Saddleback Church for worldwide Purpose Driven outreach. The site offers downloads of Pastor Rick’s sermons in MP3 format, plus a wide array of other materials.




Five tips for staying above reproach when dealing with the opposite sex - Tobin Perry

Caring for E.G.R.s in your small groups (when extra grace is required) - Steve Gladen

Survey says the average Toolbox reader may have a sexual addiction - Tobin Perry

Anointing: the mark and measure of a true preacher - Buddy Owens

Following God’s Agenda: the secret to stress-free living - Mary Southerland



"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." - C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (HarperOne, 1989)

"When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty, and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives." - Eric Hoffer in True Believer

"According to a recent survey by Christianity Today, 23 percent of pastors say that they have done something sexually inappropriate since starting in local church ministry. Most of the time it was with someone from within the church." - Christianitytoday.com

"The path of least resistance, it can lead through a minefield." - Lynette (Alicia Keys) in the movie “Nanny Diaries”

"What gets rewarded gets done." - Reggie McNeal, Get A Life (Broadman & Holman, 2007)

"A leader is a dealer in hope" - Napoleon Bonaparte

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