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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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