If you're a regular reader of the blog, you know that I frequently review books. You can't review your own book though. Church Zero has received many excellent reviews, but if I had to choose one that really nails the essence of Church Zero, it'd be this one by John Tancock, a fellow church planter in Swansea, Wales.
I ran across this video titled "Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy".
When you plant a church, you need to have the first follower. This is how it begins. Without your first follower, things will never take off. Somebody has to think you're not a nut, and that lends you a certain degree of credibility. Once a few people see you as a leader rather than a nut, the spark becomes a fire.
Check the video to see it happen.
Here's a video that Daniel Williams put together at Exponential 2013. Enjoy.
Guys, that’s not a shirt.
That’s just one dude who’s committed to tattoos.
His second skin of ink demonstrates a lifetime of commitment to a solitary passion.
There are books that appear daunting when you first start them. Six volumes on prayer? To be frank, I thought he'd run out of things to say by volume two.
Not so.
E.M. Bounds lived in an atmosphere of prayer, what David called the "secret pavilion" or "the secret place of the Most High" "under the shelter of His wings", "the shadow of the Almighty".
(This is part two in a series on preaching lessons. Read part one here.)
So there I was in an intellectual British society, realizing that my brain cupboard was a bit bare to fetch the poor british sermon taster a bone.
I was out of my depth intellectually, theologically, and hermeneutically.
From time to time I review a book that I’ve read. I’m constantly reading, and I frequently read more books than I can review. Nonetheless, prayer has been a subject that I’m studying intensely at the moment.
Today I’ll be reviewing Max Lucado’s “The Great House of God”.
I’d freshly fallen off the turnip truck in Britain.
A young up and coming missionary preacher from America, prepared to swashbuckle my way through the riggings of expository preaching to the British masses and earn my place as a pulpiteer. I’d been recently inducted as the Evangelist of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s
(The following article is from LARK NEWS. Although it's completely made up, it'll make you think. Enjoy. It's a Monday...it'll help.)
YORBA LINDA — Walk into Mark Hanson’s church and nobody will greet you. The guys hanging around the foyer might even make fun of what you’re wearing, or your haircut.
Make a fist.
Now look at it.
You’ve just created a weapon.
A powerful one if the arm behind it knows how to throw a punch.
Welcome to FIST leadership.
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