Pioneering leaders, especially apostles and prophets who function in foundational leadership roles, tend toward a specific set of motivations. These motivations can eclipse other vital aspects of the kingdom while serving to move the whole pile forward in essential ways. Pioneering leaders should be intentional about their weaknesses, making themselves accountable for how others receive […]
Category: prophetic
Maturing as a Leader: What Got You Here, What Will Get You into “Next,” part 2
Being a leader applies to everyone since personal leadership is universal and individual. “Being a leader” gets more specific in the roles we play: husband or wife, father or mother, employee or employer, warrior or general, ruler or king, and king or kingdom, for example. Leadership assumes definition in function, but our personal leadership continues […]
Salt and Light
This past week, some leaders forcefully reminded me of their viewpoint on transforming culture. They were kind enough to share their conclusions with some supporting ideas from Scripture. They were kind about it except that their conclusions were finalized with “this is the way to do it, and all other ways stink.” Their conclusion says, […]
The Next Seven Years of Plenty (with Seven Steps of Action)
Wealth of the Wicked Stored Up Isaiah pictures what is available in the atmosphere as rain in ways that help us understand how God changes the conditions to release. A desert atmosphere contains a reservoir but the conditions distribute the moisture so randomly that it seldom produces rain. Water is available but the conditions don’t […]
Jesus on Civil Government and Kingdom Leadership
Jesus draws contrast between the patterns, principles, and politics of governments and the leadership of His kingdom that will have the greater influence upon them when the Ecclesia functions properly. The kings of the non-Jews lord it over them; and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’ The term “lord” is a dominion […]
Judgment as a Leadership Function
Lynch on Leadership: New Year’s Day is mark for measurement. We tend to look at summarizations of the previous term. Reports are generated for various reasons because the turn of the year is a marker. So, leaders should embrace this opportunity to analyze the available data. Every goal must be measurable to have real meaning. […]
People and Process, Part 2
Leaders make decisions and solve problems. These aspects of leadership operate in tandem. At whatever level a person makes decisions, they solve problems. To what the reach of influence a person’s leadership extends, their decision-making and problem-solving also extends. Beware the leadership fumble that wishes to make decisions and hire or appoint others to solve […]
People and Process, Part 1
Lynch on Leadership: Leaders make decisions and solve problems. As simple as that sounds, most leadership successes and failures can be analyzed by these fundamentals. For most leaders, these foundation stones are expressed in people and processes so that things get done, goals get fulfilled, and mission gets accomplished. In this same way, these touchstones […]
The Next Seven Years, Part 2
If you don’t know where God wants you in seven years, you may be having a difficult time knowing what to do right now. Clarity of purpose is fundamental to fulfilling calling and destiny. Clarity of purpose will produce passion for purpose and serve as a basis for cutting off distractions and eliminating substitutes. Long […]
The Next Seven Years
I like to ask people who are leaders about their sense of purpose. I ask, “Where will your be in five years?” This usually stumps 98% of the people with whom I talk about ministry and leadership. Some are a bit perplexed because their sense of “living by faith” doesn’t include long range goals or […]
Word for Brasil Entering 2014
Word for Brasil Entering the New Year Any strategy for Brasil must be international in its level of spiritual authority and power if it is to properly represent God in Brasil and represent God to other nations. God tested Israel with no water once again. Numbers 20: “The whole company arrived at the Wilderness of […]
Understanding Dreams: Simple Conclusions
Dreams from God are awesome! The way He reveals things in dreams often involves code. Often, the dream produces intense feelings and thoughts. However, dreams are often very simple in their messages, and the tendency to complicate them by making the details “walk on all fours” can put God dreams out of reach. Most of […]
The Pioneering Spirit, Part 4
Beware the tendency of the enemies of pioneering to glamorize previous pioneers. At the same time, beware the tendency of the enemies of pioneering to demonize previous pioneers. The enemies of pioneering, and the pioneering spirit, marginalize this foundation of leadership in more than one way, in other words. Turning pioneers into super heroes or […]
The Pioneering Spirit, Part 3
Paul and Barnabas Barnabas and Paul walked together because Barnabas went and got Paul when no one else had a level of trust in Paul’s salvation experience. They walked together for years, it seems, and when they ministered together as representatives of the Jerusalem Ecclesia and council of apostolic leaders, they were on the same […]
The Pioneering Spirit, Part 2
Pioneering after Pentecost Many believers get a message of community from the conditions and behaviors they observe in the Early Church after Pentecost. That is not the message that dominates the landscape of the Ecclesia. The message that dominates the landscape screams pioneering. For example, the response of giving that is interpreted as communal is […]