• Leadership is a journey
• Fix your eyes on your current responsibilities
• Finish what your start
• Delayed action creates discouragement and loss of production
• Be a marathon leader and not a sprinter leader
• A leaders attitude will determine the atmosphere
• Win people not arguments
• Your work ethic will speak for itself
• CARE, it does matter
• Your leadership can outlive you and keep on making a difference
• Measuring matters because growth matters
• Get a Way so you can hear from God how to get HIS WAY!
• Character is more important than Charisma but you can have both
• What are you doing to develop yourself?
• Beware of the idolatry of dependency upon others
• Revelation is not a revelation until it is your revelation

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The dangerous assumption in today’s culture is that we unknowingly accept that our greatest asset is our own ability.  Please do not misunderstand me,  I believe Philippians 4:13 but the key is through Christ.  Often we are tempted to take credit for our accomplishments but the truth is we cannot accomplish anything of value apart from God.  I have found that God puts me intentionally in situations where I come face to face with my desperate need for him.  According to scripture God actually delights in exalting our inability.  In this process God makes it clear that with man this is impossible so in the end when it is accomplished God makes known the glory of His name.  Herod blew it when he tried to steal God’s glory and the worms came and ate his flesh.  Nobody takes God’s glory and gets by with it! Our greatest asset is the ability of God in us!

Having been in church all of my life, I have heard and seen everything when it comes to attitudes about serving (trust me I am not excluding my own attitude from this evaluation)! I know we are all tempted to think of serving as a “Got to”! Be honest, have you ever caught yourself saying “I got to teach the kids” or “I got to drive the van” or “I got to go to church” or “I got to go to choir practice”, etc. You get the idea! If your serving has become a “got to”, it’s time for an AA, attitude adjustment. Change your “got to” to a “get to”! Think and say, “I get to go to church”, “I get to teach kids”, “I get to drive the van”, “I get to give my tithe”! Serving God is always a “get to”! A “get to” says to God that you are thankful for the opportunity and that it is an honor to serve! “Get to” says you are happy to serve and it is with a grateful heart! A “get to” is contagious and motivates others to desire to “get to”! Let’s get our “get to” on and get the job done with an attitude of gratitude that’s says to God and the world watching that we “get to” and not “got to”! I get to serve God, say it and see how it motivates your work for God! Hey, try it on your job and family and other activities and let me know what you think?

Over the past few years we have seen the progression of television picture quality move from black and white to HDTV with 3D.  I want to encourage the church and leadership to move to 3D church.  Let me explain what  I mean by 3D:

• Discipleship Church-Jesus said to go and make disciples of all nations!  Jesus knew that His church would grow through discipleship.  Discipleship is the church multiplying.  Leaders that develop followers add but leaders that develop leaders multiply.
• Doctrinal Church-Sound biblical doctrine is a core value-Biblical principles are taught and given priority.  The word of God is held in the highest regard and scripture and application is practiced and preached!
• Difference making Church-a church that goes beyond convenience and comfort to covenant commitment.  A church that delights in the Lord and determines to be HIS ambassadors and reps in the world!   A salt and light church that is making a difference in the world one life at a time!  A church that is a conscience in its community! A church that God uses to bring conviction of sin and conversion from sin to salvation!

I am so overjoyed to belong to Bethel Church which is striving to be a 3D church so that people can see Jesus clearer and closer than ever.  I encourage every church to commit to becoming a 3D church.

Here’s a true example of some planting, some watering, and God giving the increase! Last December, Kingdom Kids entered a float in the Goldsboro Christmas parade with the kids singing songs from their upcoming musical.  As the float followed the parade route volunteers walked beside and passed out information/invitation cards to Bethel Church.  In the crowd a young family accepted the card and went  home and looked us up online at bethelchurch.info and they watched some of our webcasts.  When the father went to work one of his coworkers who already attends BC invited him to come to church with him at Bethel.   Finally after some months of inviting the family came to church and God began to open their hearts to the Lord.  The family came for several Sundays as God was dealing with their hearts and in the 11 am service today October 23 they made a public confession of Jesus as their Lord and Savior and now they are in our Essentials Discipleship Class.  To God be all the glory and to BC a big thumbs up from your Pastor for planting and watering until God brought the increase.  In my opinion this is the church being the church and not just doing church.

• Kingdom kids float
• Volunteers information/invitation cards
• BC members personal witnessing in the market place
• Media ministry-website, webcasting
• BC prayer partners
• BC worship celebration
• BC hospitality
• The gospel proclaimed is the power of God unto Salvation
• Sunday Night Life Groups-Essentials Discipleship Class
• God connections we are not even aware of

God arranges all of this to reach us just because He loves us!  It is so awesome being in a church where God can bring the increase!  It is all about HIM!

Since 1970 our Founding Pastor Holder and Bethel Church have been dedicated to supporting the orphans of Haiti and this past Friday that commitment was more visible than ever.  Over 70 volunteers served in our Hope For Haiti fundraiser.  It was amazing to watch as BC worked shoulder to shoulder as we sold 950 plates of BBQ Chicken.  We took in over $7000 and 100% of the profit will go directly to caring for the orphans.  That’s what I’m talking about!  Go BC!  It was the most plates we have ever sold at our fall fundraiser!  We still have a journey in front of us with rebuilding the orphanage but I know God will supply the funds and resources to see the orphan home completely restored. Oh yea! We had another donor give $3500 in our 9am service to finish paying for the land purchase, Praise God!  Please consider making a contribution to this continuing effort by going online at bethelchurch.info and giving to Hope For Haiti!  God bless you!

This past Sunday, the worship team led us at BC in a new song entitled “Jesus Be the Center”.  As we worshiped the presence of Jesus came closer and closer and Psalm 16:11(Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore) became a reality.  Putting Jesus in the center makes everything else revolve around Him.  All other interest, hobbies, relationships, responsibilities, must surrender to Jesus being at the center of it all.  Are we having church about Jesus or church about us!  Are the songs to bless us or to bless Him!  We have today what I call selfish worship instead of self less worship.  I think that is what Jesus meant by spirit and truth worship.  Jesus Church and Jesus Worship is what we need, Jesus Be the Center of It All!  Visit bethelchurch.info for the music video “Jesus Be the Center”

On August 7, I began a preaching series on “MOVE” and one of the elements we have to move is the dirt in our lives.  You know a gold miner moves tons of dirt sometimes before he ever finds gold. God has placed gold in each of us but the dirt has to be moved so the gold can be revealed.  I remember when we began construction on our new sanctuary, dirt was the first element that had to be moved in order to lay a foundation.  I have had the privilege to stand on the observation floor of the Empire State Building at a 110 stories.  Did you know before they laid the foundation of that building, they removed the dirt until they hit rock. That is where they began its foundation.  There is a story of an old donkey that fell into the well and nobody knew how to get him out.  Their answer was to throw dirt on him.  So each time a shovel of dirt would land on the donkeys back, he would shake it off and pack it down with his hooves until final he stepped out of the well himself.  Let’s allow the word of God and the blood of Jesus to remove the dirt in our life.  Let the gold be revealed in us, the rock (Jesus) be our foundation and shake the dirt off that others try to throw on us.  Let God remove the dirt in your life!  BC is a church on the MOVE!