Catalyst One Day: Craig Groeschel on Busting Barriers
Craig Groeschel is the senior leader at LifeChurch.tv. He blogs with others a Swerve. Quotable from Craig’s session…
- The longer your ministry has been stalled, the more likely you’ll have to do something drastic to break out of it.
- What got you to this point is not likely to get you to where God wants you to go.
- It requires a different mindset to grow to a new level for your organization.
- Whatever you blame on your people, you need to blame on your leadership.
- “Our people won’t give” – No, you haven’t led them to be generous.
- “Our people won’t reach lost people” – No, you haven’t led them by your example.
- We think we have to do more to reach more.
- We eliminated everything except 5 things. We do…
- Weekends
- Small Groups
- Missions
- Kids
- Students
- Are you about your mission…or are you about guarding people’s feelings?
- Some church cultures communicate that they can’t leave the church. To grow your church, sometimes you need people to leave.
- People say, “God guides by what He provides.” Sometimes God provides by what He does not provide.
- Don’t ask people what they do – find out how they think.