I feel compelled to blog in memory of filmmaker John Hughes, who died earlier this month, and who, among other huge successes, wrote and directed the greatest movie to ever capture the perils of business travel, Planes, Trains and Automobiles. If you’ve not seen PT&A recently, it’s definitely worth adding to your Netflix queue (fair warning: the movie was rated R when released in 1987, for foul language (particularly in one brief scene) and crude humor.)
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One of the most important questions your ministry can ask is [go ahead, make drum role noises here]…
“Where is our ministry right now?” Bata-bing!!
That’s it.
A tiny question that when processed correctly has huge implications. And
answering this question definitely means examining the “brutal facts”
of reality and dealing with the “squiggly things." (The terms "brutal
facts" and "squiggly things" come from Jim Collins' book, Good to Great.)
In order to stay...
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We have long expected donors to help us fund “our” ministry – the work that God has called and equipped us to do to His glory. We practice the best techniques for getting people interested in our organization, so they will like the work we do enough to...
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Is your cause so big (or at least you might think it is) that you can’t connect with a Lapsed Champion on a personal level?
I just received an email from an organization that misses me. They want me back, but in all reality I am just a number and not a face to them. They’re not a nonprofit ministry, and I guess one could argue if what they do really impacts people’s lives. They seem to want me back because they haven’t seen me in awhile. All they are doing to re-connect with me is to send...
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Last week, I wrote about coaching your champions to listen first to God's leading for your shared cause.
Next step? Listen to them to learn how they were directed. That got me to thinking about what scripture might tells us about listening. I did a word search for 'listen' on www.biblegateway.com. After scanning 413 results for about 37 minutes, here are just a few scriptural take-aways:- The verbs listen and hear often go hand in hand. David says, O Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my...
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