This is a post that Enrique Fiallo wrote recently that I think you have got to read. Enrique is an speaker, author, and blogger on purposeful and deliberate leadership.
One of the things I discovered that was keeping me from achieving, was a significant amount of baggage I was carrying around. It seems we all have baggage, some more than others. In my particular case, this baggage, or to put it another way, blemishes and flaws, had always kept me stagnant and focused on the wrong things. In essence, these flaws distorted the lens via which I looked at the world. So, how could I possibly correctly interpret and make good decisions about what crossed my path, when the distortion never really let me see it for what it was, and what it could be for me? So, I suspected I would have to change a lot of things, in order to make the kind of progress I wanted to make. How did I know this? Well, I got to it in a roundabout kind of way. My thought process went sort of like this:
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This is a guest post written by my incredible wife, Courtney Foster. You can connect with her on Twitter.
We are continuing in the series “My Church is Kind of a Big Deal”.
As we learned last week, with ownership comes obligation, and obedience to our obligation is the key to abundance.
This week Chris said, “Disobedience always leads to bondage”.
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The following is a post that Kem Meyer wrote recently that I think you have got to read! Kem serves as the Communications director at Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana where they are reaching more than 6,000 people locally and thousands around the world.
Aside from “clutter and noise,” what are some of the major pitfalls many churches run into in their communications?
Ah, easy. The ministry silos. You’ve seen it: the missions department does its own thing. The student leaders do their own thing. The women’s ministry does their own thing. And, the pattern repeats throughout the whole church. The result? Individual departments end up competing against each other with a carnival communication style trying to out-yell or out-explain.
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This is a post that Enrique Fiallo wrote recently that I think you have got to read. Enrique is an speaker, author, and blogger on purposeful and deliberate leadership.
