10 Things I've Learned in 10 Years
I really enjoyed doing a workshop at the National Outreach Convention today. My session was titled: The Ten Most Important Lessons I've Learned Over the Past Ten Years.
I had a list of about twenty lessons, but here are some of the ones I shared. I tried to mix up the lessons learned. Some are more philosophical and some are more practical. By the way, I don't think I've ever talked faster!
1) Pray ridiculous prayers
2) Be Yourself
3) Put Your Family First
4) Change of Pace + Change of Place = Change of Perspective
5) Leaders are Readers
6) Everything is an Experiment
7) 1% of What You Do Makes 99% of the Difference
8) Church is a tag-team sport
9) The Most Important and Most Difficult Job of a leader is creating culture
10) Market Internally
I had a list of about twenty lessons, but here are some of the ones I shared. I tried to mix up the lessons learned. Some are more philosophical and some are more practical. By the way, I don't think I've ever talked faster!
1) Pray ridiculous prayers
2) Be Yourself
3) Put Your Family First
4) Change of Pace + Change of Place = Change of Perspective
5) Leaders are Readers
6) Everything is an Experiment
7) 1% of What You Do Makes 99% of the Difference
8) Church is a tag-team sport
9) The Most Important and Most Difficult Job of a leader is creating culture
10) Market Internally
15 Comments:
Great list! I have loved to hear you expand on #9 (creating culture). I couldn't agree with you more. When I was leading a young adult ministry I spent so much time trying to create a safe, free environment where the gathers could just be themselves.
Is there audio available somewhere?
Hey, Mark,
The workshop was great! It was such a joy to finally meet you. Keep up the great work!
Hi Mark, my name is Steve Shoop, I am an AGWM missionary. I meant you at the FutureAG blog lunch. Today I had a meeting with Jesse and Josh, from Radiant Church, Surprise Az. I shared with them a new way of empowering students in missions. They suggested I contact you through your blog. My email is steven.shoop@agmd.org. You can check out our webpage at www.engageinmissions.com. Would I be able to communicate our idea with you at some point? Thanks, Steve
Mark,
Can you talk more about marketing internally? How do you do that?
Mark, I'd love to hear your insights on these!!! Would you blog about the following ones and go a little deeper for me? Thanks Mark for posting your thoughts! - Kevin - Jax, Fl
4) Change of Pace + Change of Place = Change of Perspective
7) 1% of What You Do Makes 99% of the Difference
9) The Most Important and Most Difficult Job of a leader is creating culture
10) Market Internally
Great post, Mark! I especially love numbers 1 and 6!
If God is able to do even more than we can think or imagine, then we ought to image some really ridiculous stuff! Then God will be even more ridiculous with what He comes up with!
Hey Mark I love the blog. Could elaborate a little more on "market internally"
I would love to know exactly what you mean with this.
Thanks
Will you be posting the complete list of 20 lessons learned? ;-) I loved the 10 - I'd love to hear the other 10!!
I had the privilege to be in the session, and I'm telling you, it was more like 200 things we could all learn - not 10 or 20. Great job, Pastor Mark! Maybe this is your next book? And you wouldn't have to write it in 90 minutes, either...
Mark, love the information. How can we get the audio or transcript of your talk?
Hey all,
I'll try to post some additional thoughts. Here is a link for the outreach convention. Maybe someone can contact them and post how to get audio recordings. I'm sure they are making them available. Here sthe link: http://www.outreachconvention.com/contact.aspx
Mark
It looks like I am not the only one who would like to see you elaborate on 'market internally'.
Take care,
David
Mark - Thanks for sharing. These are some great points.
Hey all,
I'll try to unpack these some over time. I've been flying around so I feel like I'm playing catch-up right now.
Here is the short answer on "market internally." We used to rely solely on pulpit announcements to persuade people to plug into small groups and ministries. We focused all of our marketing dollars on external marketing--getting people in the front door--and none of our money on things like small groups. So a few years ago we felt really convicted and produced our first small group guide. You can see a sample at www.theaterchurch.com under small groups. By marketing internally, I simply mean branding important things in creative ways to get people plugged in.
Hope that helps.
Mark
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