Lead. With Prayer.

[Reimagine Curator]

Lead.       With Prayer.

A Leadership Lab to Equip You To Buld/Reset A Prayer Culture throughout Your Ministry

*Small Groups*   *Youth/Adult Ministries*   *Congregations*   *Organizations*

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This book is fillled with content and resources you can use in a varieyt of ways over an extended period of time.

Set your course with these objectives:

1. I will learn to lead my church/ministry with prayer. I will take a month (or longer) to read and heed. 
2. I will invest a year (or more) in teaching and leading my leadship team into new principles and practices of praying.
3. I will invite our congregation/ministry, along the way, to follow our lead into a reshaped culture of prayer and praying.

 

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Ministry Trandforming Components

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•  Succinct Summary/Overview (page 209)
• Your Roadmap: 3 Journeys; 14 Teaching Insights (see Table of Contents)
• Mentoring Prayers (at conclusion of each chapter)
• Praye Practicing Tools (each chapter; also online)
• Teaching Templates (various lists in each chapter)
• Life-Changing Stroeis (embeded into each chapter)
• Habits-Techniques-Practices

 

 

Strategy-Driven Steps

• Read
  • Slowly ponder, listening for the Holy Spirit
  • Underline paradigm-shifting insights and ministry-transforming ideas

 

• Plead
  • Ask Seek Knock for guidance as you read
  • Invite intercessors to pray for you as you read toward a personal reset
  • ...that will lead to reenvisioning prayer and praying throghout you ministry

 

• Heed
  • Begin to practice new habits, even in group settings
  • Set new routines and invite others to join you

 

• Seed
  • Share successes and struggles about your jouney
  • Post quotes (social sites, church bulletin, newsletters)
  • Add your responses; successes and struggles
  • Leave readers with big questions (“What if we ____”)
  • Use these free "Lead With Prayer" tools>>>
  • ...then utlize them 

 

• Weed
  • Involve appropriate leaders to help reassess
  • Identify barriers: unattended meetings, unengaging formats, powerless traditions
  • "How can we eliminate _______?"

 

• Feed
  • Preach a series
  • Teach a seminar
  • Guide a small group

 

• Breed
  • Coach leadership
  • Purchase a book for each committed leader
  • Meet for discussion, accountablity
  • Identify new leaders

[Reimagine Curator]

In the book Lead With Prayer, the authors write, “Personally and anecdotally we know that Christian leaders often lead out of our own strength, dedicating significant time to research, strategy, and discussion before rounding out our efforts with a quick prayer for God to bless our plans . . . as the late pastor Tim Keller, warned, prayerlessness is detrimental for a Christian, but it’s death for a Christian leader! . . . and we see Keller’s warning playing out as Christian leaders all around us publicly stumble and fall or succumb to burnout and resign their influential roles. We also see it clearly in Scripture. We know the stories of the great leaders of the Bible, and that many of them stumbled. When leadership scholar J. Robert Clinton studied biblical leaders, he found that only 30 percent ‘finished well.’”
       Those are not encouraging statistics. The thesis of Lead With Prayer is that Christian leaders (and all Christians, for that matter) should lead with prayer - always and in all things . . . following the example of Jesus. While we would not argue with that (we have the book due to the encouragement of a friend who said the book parrots what we have been doing and teaching for 30+ years) Jesus did not tell His followers in the night before He was crucified, “if you love Me, you will pray.” He told them, “If you love Me, you will obey what I command.” He did not tell them, “the world will know that you are My disciples, if you pray.” but rather, “the world will know . . . if you love one another.”
      Loving God and doing what He says over the long haul results in righteous character like Joseph had.  (Certainly, a lifestyle of prayer is an indication of that character.) In a world full of folks trying to “build their brand” or otherwise become known on social media and the internet, it is all the more appropriate during this Advent season to meditate on the humility of Joseph, an obscure carpenter in a backwater town in the Middle East who God considered “righteous” and worthy to be the earthly father of the Son of God.

Mike Higgs