The importance of engaging in difficult situations when needed. Famous quote, Sometimes dealing with difficult situations is like throwing a grenade, but not dealing with them is like holding the grenade with the pin out. If we approach the situation with the other persons interest at heart and in love we can successfully engage difficult situations in a life giving way.

Teaching based out of Pastor Bill Hybles book of the same name.

This was a message that Pastor Eric shared with 35 pastors from around Clay County. Believing God to touch the hearts of those present and inspire them to begin meeting together to build the Big C church in our area.

Nic Simonic www.simonic.net gave a great message on personal and professional integrity in the life of every believer.

In this brief message, Pastor Eric encourages the staff at the Orange Park Campus to help new commers relationally connect with others.

I want to totally reference this post to North Point Ministries. It is freely and openly available from the north point site. It is too amazing to pass up posting this.

We are working on implementing similar practices at Celebration Church.

In this podcast, Pastor Eric talks to a group of 50+ leaders and potential leaders of Celebration Church regarding the heart beat of the church. What role Excellence plays, the 5 star church, raving fans, and the life giving church. He then turns the rest of the discussion towards Servant Leadership in the house of God.

Pastor Wayne lays some additional leadership groundwork for people considering leadership in the local church. He talks about servanthood as the foundation.

Pastor Eric Jaffe shares insights from the book by Aubrey Malphurs, "Building Leaders" begining around p. 87 on Building Godly Relationships and using Godly Influence to make a difference in the lives of others for Eternity. Christian Leadership Development.

visit:

www.ericjaffe.org , www.godfirstbusiness.com , or www.godfirstchurches.org

Pastor Wayne Lanier shares insights and strategy into building God First Christian Leaders. It's part of a series called building leaders inspired by Aubrey Malphurs book of the same name. Tghe objective is to recruit, identify, develop, and deploy leaders into ministry.