PREACHERNATION • If your sanctuary is designed with lights, cameras, screens, fog … while it can ENHANCE, realize it also ENTERTAINS. You need to be intentional about the culture of Worship so that people aren’t distracted with AESTHETIC.
PREACHERNATION • It’s poor leadership to be habitually late. It means you aren’t a good manager of yourself and time. It also tells people that you don’t value their time. Be on time, start on time.
PREACHERNATION • If you marry the right one, they won’t treat ministry like competition. A supportive spouse doesn’t pull you away from purpose, they partner with it. Ministry becomes what “we do” and not what “you do.”
PREACHERNATION • Your church needs to do more than have service. People are longing for community, & acceptance. Folk need more than service to feel community. Every church is having service at some point. What are y’all doing outside of having church?
PREACHERNATION • Y’all need to stop telling smaller ministries that they should shut down & join a bigger church. Large churches don’t ALWAYS equate to kingdom impact. There may need to be adjustments, there may arise a new leader in the future to bring growth. God knows best!
PREACHERNATION • I love seeing churches help during the shutdown, but the average church isn’t sitting on corporate-level money. A lot of the churches together don’t even equal the smallest Fortune 500 company. The work is noble, but we still need larger systems to care too.
PREACHERNATION • Pastor, remember this: you can correct adults, but you can’t control them. They’re grown. Don’t mishandle God’s people just because you carry authority.
PREACHERNATION • Don’t treat people as tools to grow the church. Instead, grow the church by investing in people. The church doesn’t exist to fulfill your strategies … your strategies should exist to uplift and serve the people.
PREACHERNATION • The goal is not to “wreck the house doc!” If your message is not to effectively minister to people then you need to re-evaluate your motive.
PREACHERNATION • Leader be careful! You may have the right to correct those in your care. However, be mindful that your most faithful people serve with struggles too. Your goal of correcting is fine but how, and when, can be detrimental. Don’t let your help cause more harm.
PREACHERNATION • Don’t choose a larger church just to blend into the crowd. Avoiding accountability is risky. Sometimes, the challenges and closeness of smaller churches are exactly what you need.
PREACHERNATION • On judgment day, many of you won’t have a sufficient answer for why you left the church where you truly belong. ✨ Being in God’s will should always supersede your preference. ✨ It’s possible that you won’t always like the church where God knows you need to be.
PREACHERNATION • You’re doing yourself a disservice if you leave your former church only to criticize your current one for not being the same as the last.
PREACHERNATION • PLEASE STOP WORRYING ABOUT OFFERINGS AND MAKE AN ALTAR CALL . . . FIRST! YOU KEEP SAYING THE CHURCH IS NOT WORRIED ABOUT BRINGING IN SOULS BUT YOU KEEP EMPHASIZING SEED ABOVE SOULS. MAKE AN ALTAR CALL!
PREACHERNATION • Being in ministry impacts your family. Marry someone who helps your ministry not hinders it — you don’t need someone who always shows up late, avoids participating, or constantly complains about the time commitment. Who you marry matters.
PREACHERNATION • When you get offended, take it to God in prayer. Often, it’s not the individual but the truth of the Word that challenges us. If you don’t address the offense, it can hinder your ability to receive from God, as resentment towards the vessel may take root.
PREACHERNATION • We need to stop joining and leaving churches because of our preferences. We need to go where God wants us to be. We’ve made church about our choice, but it’s about His will. Sometimes you need to go where you are uncomfortable because it’s for your growth.
PREACHERNATION • Holding the title of Bishop doesn’t make other Pastors inferior to you. If you see those under you as lesser, you’ll limit your growth. We’re all valuable members of the same team. No wonder everyone wants to be a bishop & new organizations keep forming.