Blaze a New Trail

by | Leadership Lifters

Leadership is Influence. Everything rises and falls on leadership, everything.

We have the Opportunity and Responsibility to be Trail Blazers of this generation.

    • To “Blaze a Trail” – someone who goes ahead and clears a path for others.

Our confidence can’t be based on knowing the answers.

    • Our desire as leaders is to solve problems, make progress, and help people grow in their faith.
    • No one knows “the” answers right now.

How to Blaze Trail 

To know the answers, we need to know the problems.

To know the problems, we have to know the people.

  • What is the problem with each age?
    • Young wants a cause.
    • Rioting and marching.
    • Young Adults.
    • What they want are fellowship and acceptance.
    • What they need is direction and mentoring.
    • They need mentoring in parenting, financing, and marriage relationships.

      • Middle Adults.
      • When a person reaches middle age in maturity they want a secure future.
      • When you become middle-aged or mature you become concerned about your future and the future of your family.
        • They need to be assured that their future home in Heaven is the only one that will last.
        • They need to start living like they will live forever but, plan like this is their last year to live.
        • They need to understand what it will take for them to live and what the government will offer them.
        • They need to learn more about how to budget and save any other time in their life.
        • They need to be taught the truth about how it’s not how much you make it’s how much you spend.
        • They need to learn if you keep playing now you will pay later, or learn to pay now and you can play later.
        • They need to be taught the difference between good debt and bad debt, which most are not.
      • Adults
        • They need to know and believe if they are not dead, God’s not done.
        • They need to know that approximately 65% of large growing churches are pastored by Sr. Adults
        • They need to develop a passion for giving back.
        • Every Sr. has something to give back.

          Problems of all ages.

            • Concern about the virus.
            • So many have gotten out of the habit of coming to church and need to get back into the habit.
            • Culture is moving and moving for more and more people to leave and not go to church.
            • The new culture is to have Religion but not a relationship with Jesus.
            • It’s our goal to teach with passion the difference.

          Our God-given creative ability. (Genesis 1:1, NKJV; Genesis 1:22-23, NKJV; Genesis 1:26, NKJV; Genesis 1:27-28, NKJV)

            • Because we are created in God’s image, we have a God-given creative ability.
            • We have a God-given desire to

           

           

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