In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im discuss and share a talk from Bob Russell, author of After 50 Years of Ministry, from Pipeline 2017 in which Russell shares the lessons he learned from the mistakes he made in ministry.

BEST QUOTES

“I feel like I have done some things the way God would have me do them, but I’ve also made some serious mistakes along the way and I’ve learned some valuable lessons from those mistakes.”

“Sometimes we learn our best lessons from our worst mistakes.”

“The worst single mistake I ever made in ministry was I forgot a wedding.”

“I acknowledged that this was an area where I was weak and I need to surround myself with people who have strengths in administration and let them do it.”

“A lot of our problems we have in ministry and in leadership come from ego.”

“Delegate even if it hurts your ego.”

“The reason people burn out in ministry isn’t because they work too hard, the reason they burn out in ministry is they work too hard in areas they are not gifted.”

“I learned to give my family priority even when the church needs attention.”

“Long after the elders and deacons in your church forget your name, your wife is going to be there.”

“The best thing a preacher can do for his church is to model marriage in front of them.”

“I learned to be content in ministry regardless of statistics.”

“Why we are discontent in this ministry is because we compare all the time.”

“God does not value your worth in ministry by your statistics.”

“Seventy-five years from now when somebody looks at a picture of your church, what are they going to say about your influence?”

“Don’t grow weary in doing good in ministry, in due season you reap a harvest if you just don’t give up.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Pipeline 2018 Conference

When God Builds a Church by Bob Russell

The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren

Watch this video and all the talks from Pipeline 2017 at MinistryGrid.com