![]() ![]() Nevertheless, there are still moments of miscommunication and actions do not match to instruction.ĭo your best to identify it for what it is - a simple miscommunication. If I am receiving instruction, then I try to ask clarifying questions if I have any doubts. I may even make them repeat things back to me if I am unsure. ![]() If I give instructions, I try and make sure that the other person understands. Both should do their best to be clear, polite and make sure they are on the same page. So the execution of the task or project is not what was expected.Ĭommunication is a two way street - the communicator and the receiver. What one person felt was clearly communicated, may not have been as clearly understood. You don't have to be in leadership long to experience a failure in communication. ![]() So become familiar with those to help formulate your own responses when these failures happen in your youth ministry. There may be some internal policies that already exist in your church. Hopefully we have some helpful ideas on how to fix them and move forward. Some of the key areas that we can see failure are communication, culture, competence, character and compliance. Whether it is an adult volunteer or a student leader, you need a process to identify the issue and resolve it. Another leader, a young person, a parent, who needs to feel encouraged and expanded. Marinate in that for a bit, then send some encouragement to someone else who needs it. Look to the God of the harvest, for he has plans for you and he still loves you. The gift of God is still in you to see breakthrough in your personal circumstances, to see change in lives that have seemed stagnant, to see resource where before there was just lack. ![]() Someone who is not thrown around by whims or fads, but who has self-control, who can live a life of example to those around them.Ĭan you feel the oxygen coming back into your soul? I hope you can. Someone who can take God's power into circumstances that need it. Someone who can be an agent of God's love in your community. They expanded him into leadership within the early church, and you can expand into a person of greater influence. Timothy received encouragement from Paul from these letters. For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline."ĭo you feel like your flame is fading? Are you feeling timid?ĭon't be distracted by what you don't think you have. ‘And there is no other way to be saved but to confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, believe in your heart God raised him from the dead you shall be saved.’īut that one parenthetical insert ‘without a doubt.’.2 Timothy 1:6-7 says "For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ‘I believe, without a doubt, that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the savior of the world, today I give you my life.’Īll of it was good, all of it was appropriate. “That’s the part he should have left out. “Lord Jesus, I believe that I’m a sinner in need of a savior, and I believe, without a doubt….”įurtick zeroes in on that particular expression. And I make mistakes up here too, but to me he made a really big mistake when he was praying the prayer.īecause he was inviting the people to pray and he said “if you want to give your heart to Christ today, and know for sure that you have a relationship with him, pray this. “And now while I believe this campus pastor meant well, but what he said I had to correct him on later. This was done so that the newly minted Christian might have a moment where they could look back and say ‘that’s when I put my trust in Christ.’įurtick calls that prayer a ‘sacred moment’ positioning it as a moment between man and creator and that “It’s not a time for someone who’s preaching to start sharing their opinions.”įurtick elaborates why he was so upset with the actions of his underling. Recently showcased again on preachers vs sneakers by racking up his condemnation for love of clothing that costs more than most people’s rent, the newly minted star of the hive of scum and heresy known as TBN recounts a teaching opportunity he had with a church pastor in an unearthed 2017 Christmas sermon.įurtick reminisces on a campus pastor that was giving an altar call and was leading a potential convert through the sinner’s prayer. Steven Furtick has corrected and rebuked a campus pastors for telling new converts readying to pray the sinner’s prayer ‘ I believe without a doubt that Jesus is Lord’, arguing that it is sinful to give them that false confidence and assurance, declaring they would be lying if they professed that certainty. It is not current, but it has value in being achieved. The story was written up before we were able to place the clip. Apparently, this story came out in early 2018, but received little traction and barely a mention. ![]()
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