I am the Founder and Senior Pastor of Convergence House of Prayer. I teach, lead, and write. I am married to my wife, Wendi. We have three amazing children and four grandchildren. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I pray my journey adds value to yours.
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While recently away, I spent time talking with the Lord about priorities, namely, defining the top five percent of my life that I, and only I, can do.
Much of what I’m sharing with you is a result of my recent study from Wayne Cordeiro’s book, “Leading on Empty.” I would urge you to pick up the book. You can see my review here.
This past year, well more accurately, these past few years have been marked with significant challenges leading to difficult situations.
I’ll use this space to share what the Lord has taught me in this season in the context of leadership and my pursuit of God through the process.
Leading through challenging times is never easy. Here are a few things I am learning through a difficult leadership stretch at Convergence House of Prayer.
Without going through the entirety of the challenge I want to leave you with what I’m learning in the midst of it. I hope you can find some of these things beneficial as you face your own.
If we are to endure in living and leading well, we need to have three groups of people in our lives: those who build us, those who inspire us and those who need us.
When these three groups of people are around us, we will continually receive support, encouragement and be connected to the needs of others.
I don’t think that the local church and the House of Prayer were ever meant to be separated. God is converging both.
In looking back at the process of our own convergence, I have identified at least twelve key steps that helped us move into our present reality.
For the many Pastors and church leaders who are praying about converging their local church with the House of Prayer I hope our journey is helpful to you.
Leadership is a tricky word. Volumes are written on answering the questions of leadership.
Such as:
You would think with all the volumes, and I mean VOLUMES, that have been written about leadership that we would have it all figured out by now!
When I say, “a traditional church” I am referring to structure not necessarily style. I understand that styles come and go, yet I believe structures live on for centuries.
It’s always enjoyable to discuss the House of Prayer reality with good friends over a great lunch. That is exactly what happened last week. I shared our history of moving more intentionally from a ministry focused church to an intimacy focused church. There were lots of great questions as my friends were exploring this reality for their own ministry.
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