Creating Personal Spiritual Momentum
This is one of those heart-hitting sessions where you just climb up on the operating table and let the knife dig deeply. I don't think I can have my personal leadership challenged enough. None of us can. Craig delivered strong and courageously!
Key to personal momentum: I will do today what I can do, to enable me to do tomorrow what I can't do today.
4 Things to Do Today
- Do something to defeat your dark side.
- What is your dark side? Easily hurt? Lash out when hurt? Prideful? Fear? Lack of confidence?
- Move into the dark side with an intentional step to confront it.
- In our weakness, God's strength is made perfect.
- Create artificial ministry deadlines (example - not every media can be Passion of the Christ quality/masterpiece; think evening news). Think "vacation prep schedule." We get much more done the 3-4 days prior to vacation - because there's a deadline. This creates margin to observe, reflect, and enjoy.
- Making these deadlines force you to...
- make faster decisions
- intentionally
- disregard unimportant activities
- Delegate what someone else can do
- Don't delegate responsibility. Delegate authority.
- Otherwise, we only gather doers and followers around us, rather than leaders.
- Delegating responsibilities creates leaders
- Control and see little momentum. Loosen up and see growth.
- Delegating authority creates margin in our own life.
- Do something only you can do
- You're the only one who can care for yourself.
- Practice refreshing activities
- You're the only one who can care for yourself by taking time off.
- If you don't - it's an issue of pride and poor leadership.
- You can care for yourself by spending time with God.
- You can care for yourself by eating right and exercising.
- You're the only one who can lead your ministry.
- My teams and our people need my leadership more than my writing or teaching.
- You're the only one who can do something that honors Christ that no one else knows about.
- You're the only one who can be a dad to my daughter and husband to my wife.
