Today on episode 75, I'm going to talk about how to help your small church, ministry or small group grow. I'll share from a lesson I did at the Look Up small church leaders conference. You'll learn how to:

• Live an inspired and inspiring life.
• How to do more with less stress
• How to develop personal systems
• How to bear more fruit

You can reach Rob at https://robskinner.com/

All that and more on this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast

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Welcome Back to the Rob Skinner Podcast!

My goal is to inspire you to:

1. Live a no-regrets life
2. Make this life count
3. Multiply disciples, leaders and churches

Personal comments

How to Live an Inspired and Inspiring Life

35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. 36 Simon and his companions went to look for him, 37 and when they found him, they exclaimed: "Everyone is looking for you!" 38 Jesus replied, "Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come." 39 So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons. Mark 1:35-39

• Spiritually powered
• Self-directed
• Jesus had a morning routine
• He chose what to do and what not to do
• He took action when no one was calling him to do it

"Some had spoken as well as he or better. Gandhi's greatness lay in doing what others might do but don't"

Louis Fischer

"Successful people make a habit of doing what failures don't like to do."

Earl Nightingale

• How to do more with less stress

Anyone in here not busy? Whether 20 or 600, we are all busy

80/20 rule: 20% of your actions are creating 80% of your performance.

Distinguish the 20% of effective work from the 80% of marginal and ineffective work

• Focus on developing the 20%
  • Inspired preaching and teaching
  • Evangelism
    • Followup
    • Bible studies
  • Training young leaders
    • Pastor factory
  • Communication and encouragement
• Make a stop doing list
  • Discipling mature disciples
  • Traditional activities
  • Unfruitful events

• How to Develop Personal Systems

The goal problem

Share: 100 member plateau

I love to set goals and go after them

The problem is if you aren't hitting them it leads back to the negativity we talked about above.

Goals are for losers and systems are for winners: Scott Adams

As long as you haven't hit your goal, you are technically a "loser."

Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous pre-success failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. Scott Adams

That is no way to live.

Set it up so you feel like you are winning on a regular basis.

Examples:

• Losing weight: Weight watchers rather than set a target weight.
• Get in shape: Commit to 3-5 times in the gym weekly.
• Spirituality: 15 minutes meditating on Jesus
• Bearing fruit: I'm going to share with 3 people a day until I meet someone open

Every goal you have needs to have a system that you can work on daily to achieve it.

Share: Personal goal sheet

• How to bear more fruit than at any time in your Christian life

38 Jesus replied, "Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come." 39 So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons. Mark 1:38-39

If your church is under 100 members, you have to lead the way.

Show slides of people I personally met

It energizes you, gives you confidence and inspires others.

Create a system of regular evangelism

You are the most attractive, persuasive member of your church, use your super-power.

• 100-200 people a month
• 3x5 cards
• Follow fundamentals:
  • Share
  • Follow-up
  • Set up studies
  • Teach
  • Baptize
• Create Accountability:
  • Habit Tracker
  • Tokyo prayer group