What Pastors Do In The Dog Days Of July.

Here comes the June blog for church leaders:

READ

LEARN

RETHINK

GO FOR IT!

[READ]: There are some excellent books newly off the press that I encourage leaders and pastors to read this summer:

The Hole In Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? @ Richard Stearns
Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge @ Dallas
Willard
How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In @ Jim Collins
God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith is Changing the World @ John
Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge.

[LEARN]: The Hole in Our Gospel - Will help each of us refocus on the fullness of the Gospel.
Knowing Christ Today will teach us the essential need to hold and preach a Gospel of substance (“too trivial to be truth” is Dallas’s haunting words of warning to the western evangelical church).
How the Mighty Fall will teach us that complacency will kill even the most secure and successful.
God is Back will teach the need to hold the big picture of what’s happening with Islam and Christianity around the globe and guide our thinking on being a global church in a flat world.

[RETHINK]: try this video ……..exciting way to rethink how you are missional. http://bit.ly/pBTnW. The old adage defining stupidity as 'doing the same thing over and over and expecting a new result' - can be true for many growing churches. Time to rethink. More innovation needed when the gorwth curve is steep but beginning to slow. Do the rethink.

[GO FOR IT]: this is where we often drop the ball. No more analysis – move to action. Take new steps in September and turn the corner into 2010 with newness, freshness, boldness.