[Kid Inspiration]

DISCLAIMER: This is written on an iPhone app and may not be fully good English.

In a few short days time I will be in Vegas at the Napkin Conference at the Church at South Las Vegas. My whole family will be there and I am excited to meet anyone coming along especially blog readers.

This post is part three of three introducing the ideas I would like to talk about at napkin, a sort of primer, pre conference exchange of thoughts. Also make sure if you aren’t coming and you can get yourself there, make it happen!

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People are never a task to complete. They are not a to do list of varying importance.

People are more important than the role they fulfill. They are also the reason we want to see our Churches grow, so we can reach and help more people.

But a person is never ‘finished’, you and I never get a stamp on the forehead ‘complete’… We are all works in progress with a long way to go no matter how far we’ve come.

So make sure in your ministry you have some projects that you tick off the to do list, cross off the project management and celebrate as finished!

The napkin of creative leadership maybe crumpled but it should produce some quality fruit, some great results and a sense of accomplishment of a job well done!

No matter how small the win, take you and your team to the victory podium now and again.

DISCLAIMER: This is written on an iPhone app and may not be fully good English.

In a few short days time I will be in Vegas at the Napkin Conference at the Church at South Las Vegas. My whole family will be there and I am excited to meet anyone coming along especially blog readers.

This post is part two of three introducing the ideas I would like to talk about at napkin, a sort of primer, pre conference exchange of thoughts. Also make sure if you aren’t coming and you can get yourself there, make it happen!

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In the old testament Moses’ father in law seemingly organized the whole Israelite nation in a single meeting. Telling Moses to find leaders over 10′s, 100′s and 1000′s and therefore save his sanity.

Tick the efficiency box and move on to the next task?

Well Moses just found himself a new job, overseeing a bunch of leaders.

What the bible doesn’t go into just how Moses kept the system going over the following years. How did he grow the structure over the coming years? Did he fire any of his new leaders? Who got promotions?

However it worked, it was probably a little messy. He was figuring it out as he went along and I’ll bet his father in law had more to say to him!

The 700 word magazine articles you read about teams and leadership can make teams and leadership seem a clean and tidy affair. But the day to day reality is messy. There are decisions to be made and the greatest structural leadership flow chart, venn diagram, PowerPoint presentation is an ideal not a constant reality.

Have an ideal, but roll with the unexpected!

DISCLAIMER: This is written on an iPhone app and may not be fully good English.

In a few short days time I will be in Vegas at the Napkin Conference at the Church at South Las Vegas. My whole family will be there and I am excited to meet anyone coming along especially blog readers.

This post is part one of three introducing the ideas I would like to talk about at napkin, a sort of primer, pre conference exchange of thoughts. Also make sure if you aren’t coming and you can get yourself there, make it happen!

The Crumpled Napkin of Creative Leadership.

The bible uses some amazing words when describing the local church. It paints a picture of the community of faith being a body, a bride, a building. The house of God is glorious and splendid and magnificent. The people of God are welcoming and giving and selfless.

Now some of these words may be in your churches mission statement but are they to be found during weekend services?

That feeling when you visit another church and walk away feeling inadequate after inevitable comparisons? It happens to everyone!

I mean everyone.

The kids pastor with the most rocking facilities become discouraged just as easily as the rented school church pastor.

Familiarity blinds us to what we have.

Don’t ever stop using those words to inspire and encourage. The bride of Christ is beautiful and magnificent, friend to the friendless and home for every heart!