Leadership Matters

More leadership nuggets from the Catalyst 2011 in Atlanta.

This one comes finance guru Dave Ramsey.

Over the past 20 years, Dave has identified 5 core values that he believes will make the difference in our leadership and ministries:

Finding A Sustainable Pace

By now, many of us are full-on into a new term of ministry with students.

Whether we’ve been at it for 2 weeks or 4 weeks, or somewhere in between, we’ve likely been going at it hard — recognizing that the first few weeks of the new academic year are critical for connecting with new students. Our desire, as always, is to have the best start ever!

But if we’re not careful, we could quickly find ourselves hitting a wall of sorts.

Yes, the beginning of a new academic year does require a lot from us — in fact, many of us would agree that it’s the busiest time of the year, but it’s also the beginning.

Steering New Students Away From Leadership

I have very few “pocket speeches” that I pull out and use over and over again.

I find that every student is unique, as is their situation, and it (and they) deserves to be treated as such.

However, at the start of every new school year there is one speech (conversation is probably a more accurate description) that I seem to present over and over and over again…

When new students approach me about finding a place to lead (and more specific to our campus — to lead worship) I tell them all the same thing:

Find a place to belong first, then look for ways to invest your gifts.