Breaking the Clergy-Laity Tradition
(Continuing reflections on Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision by Paul Gupta and Sherwood Lingenfelter) Perhaps one of the biggest hindrances to providing leaders for the growing church is the...
View ArticleBreaking Tradition While Working Within the System
(Continuing reflections on Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision by Paul Gupta and Sherwood Lingenfelter) The clergy-laity distinction is a reality we have to live with. (See previous post.) In many...
View ArticleBreaking Tradition By Trusting the Holy Spirit
(Continuing reflections on Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision by Paul R. Gupta and Sherwood G. Lingenfelter.) As I have been thinking about empowering God’s people for ministry I have become more...
View ArticleBreaking Tradition By Mentoring
(Continuing reflections on Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision by Paul R. Gupta and Sherwood G. Lingenfelter.) Paul R. Gupta is a leader at the forefront of the movement to plant a million churches...
View ArticleSeminars are not enough! The Need for Follow-up Mentoring
Seminars are not enough! The Need for Follow-up Mentoring (Continuing reflections on the book Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision by Paul R. Gupta and Sherwood G. Lingenfelter.) Sherwood...
View ArticleOutside Resources and Church Leadership Training in Africa
The Moth[1] in the Cocoon The story is told of a young man who found a cocoon and brought it home. Every day he watched to see if the insect was ready to come out. One day as he examined it to his...
View ArticleStewardship, Ministry and Life
Stolen! It was quite a shock when I looked into the box where we keep the MCPI projector and to realize that it was missing. We were just setting up for our team training day–and it was gone. It was...
View ArticleUnexpected Training
At our last seminar we expected to be training people but God was training us. Let me explain. We had all of our careful plans and our thoughts about what we would do at and how we would do it. But...
View ArticleExecution is Key
I was in the Dar Es Salaam airport awhile ago and saw this statement which claimed to be a Swahili proverb: ”Where there is a purpose there is no failure.” Do you agree with that statement? I don’t....
View ArticleDon’t Stoop to be a king!
Today I attended the graduation of African International University. It was a joy to see one of my training colleagues, Gabriel Ochuka, receiving his Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership. I...
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