Outreach Mistake #2: Not catching an adequate variety of fish
Mistake #2. Not trying to catch an adequate variety of fish.
Typical human nature encourages us to reach out only to those who are like...
Mistake #5. Trying to control the results.
All evangelism works… if you just keep at it.
This is particularly true for Servant Evangelism. God’s Spirit flows through us out to those we...
Mistake #7. Too Few Outreach Opportunities.
Sometimes we think about doing outreach only now and then. But it takes a steady commitment to reach our community if we hope to...
Mistake #9. Not Enough Training.
Training is essential. In the Book of Ephesians Paul wrote of the need for the “equipping of the saints” to take place in the...
Mistake #10. Over-Training.
When we lack confidence we tend to seek out programs that seem to promise easy success. These are fear responses. Success is not so...
Mistake #11: Independence in Church Finances Apart from Outreach
An over-dependence upon church systems for success is not good. This kind of thinking will cause outreach leaders to become bitter, frustrated and eventually...
Mistake #13. Thinking I could do outreach alone.
Most of the mistakes we have been looking at are myths. As such they are partially true and just partially false. Thus there is...
Mistake #14: Waiting for Someone Else to Start
I have been a reluctant leader at most points along my leadership journey. I am a little skeptical of leaders who are too eager...
Mistake #14.5 Reluctance to Start.
This is the last entry of this series of Mistakes in Outreach. When it comes to applying all of this—in beginning to walk out...
Six Mega-Church Pastoral Leadership Myths
I spent over 20 years starting, building and leading what became a megachurch in Ohio as you may know. I look back on that...
