The List

Posted by admin2 | Filed under Personal

I’ve been keeping a running list of goals and commitments I seek to hold as a Lead Pastor. I reviewed the list while on the plane ride from NY to OK. I haven’t looked at it or added to it in a while. I was encouraged, and convicted. I’m at 60 goals/commitments and counting. So, I thought I’d share a few in this post and in the next. I see it as a form of accountability to myself. But for what it’s worth to you… Hope maybe you can apply this to your own life, or ministry, where it fits.

By God’s grace:
1. Pray deeply and constantly.
2. Preach Christ and His Word. This is central.
3. My behavior better match my preaching and teaching. (Integrity).
4. Never sacrifice solitude with Christ in His Word and prayer for ministry and sermon preparation.
5. Church growth in faith, community, and mission. Souls saved, lives changed, Christ impassioned, God glorifying, and world impacting. This is the big win.
6. Love people.
7. Seek creativity always—constant creativity and creatively constant (Ed Young).
8. Just be me.
9. Be a leader people want to follow and not have to follow.
10. Read minimum of 30 minutes a day. Sharpen the axe.
11. Take Sabbath once per week.
12. Family before Church & ministry. Fight for it. 50 years from now my family will be the ones changing my Depends, and standing at my bedside, not anyone else.

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Permalink | November 18th, 2009

One Response to “The List”

  1. Cary Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 6:44 am

    Great list, very challenging. I need to work on several of those with much more passion and effort. Reading 30 minutes a day is something I do for a few days, then let slip away so often.

    Can I question #12? While I agree very much (and certainly live that way), in light of Matthew 12:46-50, doesn’t Jesus put ministry first?

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