My World

I try not to steal from other blogs, but this was great on Perry’s blog. If you don’t read his blog, you should. Great list.

#15 - No one is ever challenged to radically rearrange their lives to be a part of what God is doing.

#14 - God hasn’t asked you to give something up.

#13 - Everyone in your church is perfect. (If you are truly reaching lost people then you will discover that ministry is messy.)

#12 - Nothing in regards to how you lead has changed in the past year.

#11 - When your youth group wants to do something you make them have a bake sale in front of Wal Mart–but when your senior adults want to do something the church covers the cost; after all, they are tithers!  (And that same church will wonder why “the youth don’t come to church anymore.”)

#10 - You always find something wrong with ministries that are seeing fruit.

#9 - You can do everything you have in front of you WITHOUT the help of God AND others.

#8 - You spend more time on other churches websites than you do reading your Bible.

#7 - You think the answer to every problem is, “If we just had more money.”

#6 - No one has ever left your church.

#5 - You continually call other churches begging them for money.

#4 - You allow people with money to dictate the way you spend your time and the direction of the church.

#3 - When you go to a conference and come back and announce “we are changing everything” because you have received INSPIRATION not REVELATION.

#2 - You’ve never spent sleepless nights wondering, “How in heck are we going to do this? Seriously, I told our church we were going to do WHAT?”

#1 - You worry more about keeping the people in your church happy then you do about pleasing God and speaking the truth.

I can personally relate to number 2 a lot, since becoming a lead pastor, I have never slept worse in my entire life.