I love to learn, even approaching 70 years of age, I have much to learn! I love to grow in my love of GOD! I love to share that love and knowledge of GOD to all! If you stop learning, you stop living a full life. I learn from DOING! If you think you have learned it all, your EGO has taken over! I love what Mr. Ashcraft shares with us about what he learned from Chick-fil-A leaders. “Take chicken to the people.”
On of my pet peeves of the Church in Albuquerque is this…..a Church on every street corner, but the city continues to go to hell, pot and booze stores everywhere, drugs consume so many, killings every week, the lost are everywhere. Hit the streets, Bring the love of JESUS to all, people just don’t go to Church like they used to, haven’t for years! Hit the streets in your community, bring JESUS to them! When God moved me and Sharon out of KKIM Christian radio to establish FGGAM, the late Pastor Ray Franks told me, “Dewey do not start a Church, we have them on every street corner and many are struggling to have 15 to 25 members.” YES! So many are truly failing to bring JESUS to where the people are at! So many love preaching to the choir! FGGAM is a Great Commission ministry, we are small, but powerful in GOD ALMIGHTY! I BOAST IN MY GOD!
Evangelism, go do it, many are dying without knowing JESUS. It us up to you and me to share JESUS with a dying world.
From Outreach Magazine
For as long as I can remember, I was taught as a young pastor that one of the strongest characteristics of a leader is the drive to never stop learning. In my early years, this played itself out by attaining academic degrees and attending as many seminars or conferences as I was able.
As the years passed, the behavior of “never stop learning” morphed into reading the writings of wise leaders, engaging in conversations with leaders a few steps ahead of me, and visiting and observing the work of successful leaders and organizations, both in the church world and the business world.
And each August, “never stop learning” involved expanding my thinking and developing my leadership skills by attending the Global Leadership Summit (GLS).
As our church continued to grow and expand, we sensed that God was nudging LCBC (Lives Changed by Christ) Church to impact the state of Pennsylvania by introducing more and more people to Jesus throughout our state. Already having multiple LCBC locations across central and eastern Pennsylvania, we assumed that God was nudging us to open more and more campuses across our entire state.
Then, several years ago, visits with the leadership teams of two prominent organizations dramatically changed our thinking and the direction of our church.
First, spending two days in Atlanta with executives of Chick-fil-A helped sharpen our focus and simplify our mission. Until this point, we assumed that the mission of Chick-fil-A was similar to ours: to get as many people in our buildings as possible. But we quickly learned that this wasn’t true. Instead, again and again, Chick-fil-A leaders expressed that they exist simply to “take chicken to the people.” The Rest of The Story Here