We’re picking up where we left off last week and continuing a conversation about the lessons learned from Pastor Brady’s ten years of ministry at New Life Church. Our hope is that these lessons would resonate with and encourage you.
SHOW NOTES – 010 – Lessons from 10 Years Pt 2
For your young leaders, serve your way into relationship… a lot of mentoring happens when you’re just present…
Millennials tend to have this idea of what a mentoring relationship needs to look like, that it has to be perfect and romantic and ideal… I would say just serve and be present and along the way you’ll find the relationships evolve…
The question is: who do you want to be like, and will you chase them?
Chase character and not charisma… oftentimes charisma on the stage is misleading… so find someone whose character outweighs their charisma…
It doesn’t have to be a famous pastor… it doesn’t even have to be a pastor… there are people all around you [who can help you]… it’s about having the eyes to see and the guts to ask…
If I don’t pastor my own home, I don’t have the right to pastor the church…
We have to honor the Sabbath every week, and that’s different than a day off… a day off is when I mow my yard and get the oil changed… but a Sabbath is when I return to my sonship… Sabbath is when I wake up as a child and let God be Father to me all day long…
Your year needs to include Sundays where you know you shouldn’t preach, and it needs to include an extended vacation… I don’t care what size the church is, you need more than one week off at a time…
Questions for you and your team
- How can you be more proactive about pursuing mentoring relationships?
- Do you have people in your life who you want to be like? What can you do to chase them?
- How are you doing at honoring the Sabbath?
- What would it look like for you to plan your year in a healthier way?
Recommended Resource
Abraham Joshua Heschel – The Sabbath