I’m sure you’ve heard that before, or something like it. The idea is that the intensity of your pursuit should never exceed the value of the corresponding reward. More simply, don’t waste time fighting battles that don’t matter in the overall scheme of things. But let’s get to a few practical applications of this advice.
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This week’s installment of the audio blog is taking a left turn and we’re going to tackle a new topic. We’ve hit Elevation Church Best Practices for the last 6 weeks, so this week’s new approach will have more of a Q and A flavor. We made the open call last week for future blog [...]
PART II
Chris asks (and also wins the award for run on sentence of the week):
“What does Dressing for the Wedding look like when you are 300-400 people and the offerings are low and you are the only paid staff even though I have 10 committed staff people that work a min. of 20 hours [...]
Eat the Fish, Leave the Bones, that’s the title of this week’s audio blog on Elevation Church Best Practices. You really never know what you’re going to get in one of these things..and neither do we. We sit down with a direction of where we’d like to take the conversation and let the tape roll.
Typically [...]
A recap of yesterday’s main idea:
Effective and lasting ministries are not built by cutting and pasting…
They are birthed from the inside out.
In the last 2 years I’ve gotten better at the fine art of filtering. We refer to this as eating the fish and leaving the bones (check out next week’s audio blog for more [...]
Welcome to the Elevation Best Practices Audio Blog. This week’s best practice is The Power of Overreaction.
And for those of you not as familiar with the audio blog format, we’ve posted Monday audio blogs over the last few weeks to give some insight into our approach to ministry.
The audio blogs range in time from 15-30 [...]
Lesson #3-Protect Your Pastor!
This is the single most important lesson that I have learned from my travels with Pastor Furtick over the years.
I can hear some of you asking…
“What do you mean protect your Pastor and what does that look like?”
“Do I need to dress like a secret service agent, and strap myself with enough [...]
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Pastor Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Creative Pastor, Larry Hubatka: Writing really good copy is hard to do. If you find someone who can do it, they're worth their weight in gold.
Project Manager, Lisa Shea: Can I clarify I finished the book last night at home. I am too busy projecting to read here!
Children's Director, Jessi Welch: Working on set-up procedures for Sunday.
Worship Pastor, Wade Joye: Had a great lunch with Matt Kelly. He gave me a crash course on different styles of music and how to work them into our worship context.
Assistant to the Lead Pastor, Lori Black: Just finished a video shoot with the Furtick family!
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