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*20 - 20 Vision*
*/"The church is not a small business enterprise - it is an outpost of the living God."/*
-H.C.
Wilson
I wouldn’t attempt to reduce 20 years to 20 insights and just leave it at that but it would seem only proper with my preacher-type peers to take a stab at it anyway.
Hind sight having the greatest accuracy and being the least available when we need it the most, perhaps could be of some value to others if it is represented to others as “disposable wisdom”.
What that means is that if you find good in something here, then that’s great.
If on the other hand my hind sight is not relevant to you because your experience has not yet called for it, then you can either file it where you can find it again or forget it.
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1.
Your potential is determined by God alone.
The way to become all that you can be then is to nurture that relationship above all others.
2.
There are no God-ordained temperaments that suit us better for leadership.
Anyone can lead and anyone can rise above the limits of their temperament and everyone needs to rise above the limits of their temperament.
Most seminars are led by sanguines or cholerics.
God is phlegmatic.
Temperament percentages.
3.
Christians should learn to be nice.
It is normal and okay to be persecuted for righteousness sake but many times we are persecuted for stupidity’s sake.
“If you can’t say anything nice about a person then the chances are . . .
you must think they are a real jerk.”
There is another problem that we need to be aware of.
Some Christians find it very tempting tobe so very certain about what is right that they start laying down the law.
Often it is difficult to be both firm and loving.
A.W. Tozer put it this way:
"It requires great care and a true knowledge of ourselves to distinguish a spiritual burden from a religious irritation.
Often acts done in a spirit of religious irritation have consequences far beyond
what we could have guessed.
It is more important that we maintain a right spirit toward the others than that we bring them to our way of thinking even if our way is right.
Satan cares very little whether we go astray after false doctrine or merely turn sour.
Either way he wins."
Do you know what Tozer means by "sour Christians"?
Often they have a good grasp of doctrine and a clear analysis of the situation, but seem to lack gentleness and peace.
Any follower of religion can have a religious irritation: . . .
It is very easy to right in the wrong way.
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It is painful to see yourself as you are.
You can’t see the truth about yourself.
You need a faithful friend who will tell you the truth and the humility to listen to him~/her.
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The greatest commission is not behavior modification.
Non-Christians act like non-Christians.
Thoreau.
There are 1,000 hacking at the branches of evil for every one striking at the root.
THE DISCIPLE
He that hath a gospel,
To loose upon mankind,
Though he serve it utterly---
Body, soul and mind---
Though he go to Calvary
Daily for it's gain---
It is his disciple
Shall make his labor vain.
He that hath a Gospel,
For all earth to own---
Though he etch it on the steel,
Or carve it on the stone---
Not to be misdoubted
Through the after-days---
It is His Disciple
Shall read it many ways.
It is His Disciple
(Ere those bones are dust)
Who shall change the Charter
Who split the trust---
Amplify distinctions,
Rationalise the Claim,
Preaching that the Master
Would have done the same.
It is His Disciple
Who shall tell us how
Much the Master would have scrapped
Had he lived till now---
What he would have modified
Of what he said before---
It is His Disciple
Shall do this and more ......
He that hath a Gospel
Whereby heaven is won
(Carpenter or Cameleer,
Or Maya's dreaming son),
Many swords shall pierce Him,
Mingling blood with gall;
But His Own Disciple
Shall wound Him worst of all!
Thoreau
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When you go to a different church your job is not to transplant a ministry but to find out what the Senior Pastor wants and to do it.
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Great faith is evidenced by great works.
If you are believing God for great things then you had better be prepared for a whole lot of personal involvement.
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God may not be involved in as many of our moves as we are.
Short tenure may have something to do with low pain tolerance.
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Pre-mature soapbox
10.
Most of life is preparation.
11.
Some of the things in life that you least expect will become the greatest and most fruitful blessings.
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It is possible to become so narrow in your focus relative to church ministry that you lose perspective of the ministry at large.
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In the long run, character and integrity are more important than any ability that a person can have and they will outdistance the others.
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Tacking - It is the way that a sailor uses the headwind to make progress against it.
Requires an understanding of the basic art of sailing.
The wind takes you where you want to go not where it wants you to go.
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One of the greatest marks of spirituality is personal lack of awareness of it.
The closer a person gets to Christ the more aware they become of how much they really are unlike Him.
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As far as winning the lost goes, there are very few issues that are worth a higher place in the priority scale.
Some that we might want to place there can actually retard our progress in the greatest goal.
*I Stand By The Door*
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