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5 Thoughts from Ronnie Floyd's 10 Things Every Minister needs to Know.

Two days ago: I picked up this book with some basic yet helpful thoughts. Here are some quotes from the first chapter of this book:

1. What would happen in your life if you focused for one hour daily on one thing alone? What would happen if your focus was so tight for that one hour that it was as piercing as a laser beam?...I have learned the power of one hour.
2. If you give yourself to doing anything for one hour a day consistently, you have the potential to become an expert.
3. What I can control is my focus. Even when I may not want to or feel like it . I am convinced that I can bridle and train myself to focus.
4. I have discovered through the years that the degree to which God changes me will usually be the degree to which I change the world. I cannot expect to change "the world" until I let God have more than ample opportunity "to change my world" by changing me first.
5. God expanding your influence does not guarantee a bigger ministry or church. You have missed it if you equate the two. It means that wherever you are serving you are not only being faithful but fruitful.

Thank you Ronnie Floyd!!!!

Never Quit!

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius

Dont be a Coward!! Preach like dying men to dying men!!!.............

"The preacher who stands before his people and roundly denounces the sins of others, and yet fails to confront his hearers with their own greed, lust, hard-heartedness, and pride, is not bold, no matter how loudly he may thunder. It is relatively easy for a preacher to let fly the salvos of Scripture against the communists, the Roman Catholics, the homosexuals, the drunks, or the secular humanists -- most of whom are probably absent from his Sunday services. But how many will clearly and boldly address in relevant and challenging ways the evils of broken relationships between members of the church, poisonous envy among church leaders, generally tolerated compromises with worldliness among the affluent sheep who believe they have earned it, or the chronic laziness of the poor man who likes to think of himself as a victim?" (Wagner, Tongues Aflame, p. 45).

Preaching, of course, is not a soundbite; it is not polished rhetoric; its effect does not rest on the irresistible logic of the preacher's argumentation, but on the irresistible grace of the preacher's God-Ian campell. 4-9-09 on preaching.!!!

Signs that you lack spiritual Insight

• You are not being challenged by anybody to radically rearrange your life to be a part of what God is doing.
• God hasn't asked you to give something up.
• Everyone in your life and your church is happy with you. (If you are truly living for God you will always make people in your life uncomfortable).
• Nothing in regards to how you spend your time and energy has changed in the past year.
• You always find something wrong with people who are successful than you.
• You can achieve all the goals in your life WITHOUT the help of God AND others.
• You spend more time listening to friends, reading self help magazines, or listening to the local gossip than you do reading your Bible.
• You think the answer to every problem is, "If we just had more money."
• No one is avoiding you because you are too churchy or too hardcore for Jesus.
• You continually call other people begging them for money and unreasonable favors.
• You allow people with money or influence to dictate the way you spend your time and the direction of your life.
• Nothing in your life has been consistent in the past five years.
• You've never spent sleepless nights wondering and praying, "God, how in heck are we going to do this?"
• You worry more about keeping friends and families happy then you do about pleasing God and speaking the truth in love.---Written by James Owolabi adapted from Perry Noble 15 Signs That You (Or Your Church) Lacks Vision 5/5/2008 12:59:26 PM