I came across this book review today of a book entitled Introverts in the Church. Being an introvert myself, I was curious to read the review. Below is an excerpt from the review. It looks like this could be a helpful read for those of you in ministry leadership…
Most churches are structured where the lay people do church maintenance and the paid staff do ministry. So you end up with, say, two hundred members responsible for the maintenance of the church while one pastor is supposed to do all the ministry!…
1. They are people of prayer. They realize that only God can convict and convert, and they are totally dependent upon Him in prayer. Most of the highly evangelistic Christians spend at least an hour in prayer each day…
Good preaching and great music can produce big crowds and quick decisions, but not call out genuine disciples. Genuine disciples are produced only by the intentional investment of our lives in the lives of individual people…
This scenario reminded me of how sometimes we let people within our ministry become “irreplaceable”. As difficult as it is to accept, no one fits this category…
Honestly, they seemed a little surprised by my comment. I am not sure but it seemed like they hadn’t connected their efforts to the fact that their coaches did much better this season…