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32. Keep a Good Sense of Humor.
• Take your job seriously, yourself never!
33. Manage Your Time Well
• Urgent things are rarely important.
• Be disciplined to get the necessities done every day.
• Time with God.
• Preparation
• Family
• Staff
• Administrative responsibilities
• Shepherding the flock.
34. Evaluate Your Staff.
• What are we doing?
• Why are we doing it?
• How can we do it better?
35. Be Ambitious for God’s Kingdom.
• Great leaders set up their ministries for even greater success in the future.
36. Demonstrate Humility.
37. Learn To Delegate.
38. Learn from your Failures.
39. Communicate the Vision.
• Vision is a picture held in your mind’s eye of the way things could or should be in the days ahead.
• Clarify the general direction for change.
• Motivate people to take action in the right direction.
• Help coordinate the actions of different people in a reasonably fast and effective way.
40. Don’t Quit.
14.4 Let’s Practice…
1. True or False “Deep sermons cannot be preached by shallow people. Profound sermons only come
from people who enjoy a profound relationship with God.
2. True or False “A Pastor’s wife’s greatest ministry is to take care of herself and her children.”
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