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15. Kill Sacred Cows, Carefully
I remember walking into the first week of my position at a church where I was responsible for overseeing 5th-12th graders. I looked at the weekly schedule, programs, and events and quickly realized that the current structure of having three groups did not make much sense and wasn’t going to be sustainable. As I visited…
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14. You Can Never Make Everyone Happy
I started in ministry as a people pleaser. I thought that my responsibility as a pastor was to make everyone happy and if I did that, they would have a strong relationship with God. One of my top goals in my early years of ministry was to do whatever it took to make peace and…
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13. Apologize Quickly
One year, the church I was at had a fall festival where we had games for kids, trunks of cars decorated for kids to get candy, and food for families. The youth ministry had done an incredible job of serving and helping out and I had told them if they served, we would have a…
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12. The Power of Your Story
Recently, I taught the lesson for our kids ministry and the topic was integrity – doing the right thing even when we don’t want to. I told a story about when I was a 8 years old, my brother and I played baseball in our living room and one time I hit the ball and…
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10. Integrity Wins or Loses Championships
I remember after a pretty heated board meeting, the vice president came up to me and asked if I would give him a ride home. He spent the next 30 minutes pouring into me, asking me how I was doing, who I felt God calling me to be, challenging me to be gracious and forgiving,…
