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There Will Always Be A Season

Ecclesiastes 3:1 states there is a time for every activity under the heavens. This necessitates the need for you as a leader to discern the season your organization is in and then tell them what it is. Give voice to the realities of the season you are experiencing. Assign appropriate language to it, designate helpful parameters to succeed within it, and confidently offer solutions for moving through it.

A key responsibility is to know what season your organization is experiencing. Then you can communicate the implications of this season. Note these examples of seasons…

• A season of Growth – Your language is exciting, encouraging, and uplifting.
• A season of Consolidation – Your language is that of instructional, building the infrastructure, and discipleship that will prepare for the next season of growth.
• A season of Transition – Your language would be more of encouragement and guidance to calm fears of change.
• A season of Malaise – Your language might be that of shaking up the organization lest the malaise become permanent. Who wants that?
• A season of Reinvention – Your language here would be that of investigation. Let’s take a close look to see what should change and why?

Explosive Growth & Dramatic Meltdowns

The Church of Jesus Christ is growing at an amazing rate around the world. Many leaders become excited about explosive growth and yet never prepare for the internal systems needed to maintain that growth. Your excitement about growth can be quickly tempered by the lack of internal planning necessary – parking spaces.

Vision – Paint It Passionately

At the core of leadership sits the power of vision. This is without a doubt the most potent weapon in your arsenal. Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion in the people (Bill Hybel’s).

Billy Graham and few college buddies in the 1940’s talked about filling stadiums all over the world presenting the gospel of Jesus to the masses – well over 200+ million that have heard the gospel of Christ. To anyone who has ever set under the teaching of Dr. Gilbert Bilezikian Professor at Trinity College about being part of a Acts 2 functioning church will understand the power of a vision. He would paint a word picture of a functioning Christian community that would stir any person who listened.

You have to be stirred at the spirit level of what you are attempting to accomplish. Never apologize for the strength of feeling you have for the vision that God has placed into your life. God meant for you to feel as deeply about this vision for you as you do about anything.

When you get to the essence of it all, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the hope of the world. It is the God-ordained redemptive agency that can and must shape each community’s future. The idea of a healthy local church should stir the deepest kind of feelings within each of us. The hope for the Church is what motivates the passion for podcasting to non-profit leaders.

Never apologize for the strength of feeling you have for the vision that God has placed into your life. There are plans fore-ordained that I believe that God has for your life, your family, friends, work, and community. GO STRONG! GO WITH PASSION!

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