Refreshed

Today, Jill and I returned from a retreat that you guys sent us on in Toledo Bend at the Cypress Bend Resort in Many, LA. What a great time to relax and reflect on ministry. I was so encouraged to be around some of my mentors and hero’s ; Dr. Fred Lowery and Dr. Johnny Hunt.

There were lessons on relationships, insecure leaders – a ministry headache and the pastor and his resume (spiritual resume). Let me give you some one and two liners that I thought were great!

- If your community is growing and your church is not growing, it is either plateauing or declining.

- The reason why we think our people have become pathetic is because we (preachers) have become pathetic in our preaching. We need to be on FIRE!

- There is no greater need in your life than to stay close and clean.

- We want change without change. When the pain of staying the same becomes greater than staying the same – you’ll change.

- The question isn’t is it contemporary or traditional it’s: IS IT BIBLICAL?