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Solomon tells us in the book of Proverbs that where there’s no OXEN the manger or work place is clean.

I know that’s all a bit too agricultural for most of us but metaphorically it’s still so true today.

In other words the OX is ugly, smelly, sweaty and poohs everywhere. But above all it’s PRODUCTIVE! No sweat no productivity...so don’t ever be afraid of or apologise for the ugliness of pure hard work.

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TYRANNY IS THE DELIBERATE REMOVAL OF NUANCE. The word NUANCE is from the French word meaning ‘shades’ and in this very divided world we need to appreciate different shades more than ever. Everything has become either/or…for/against…good/bad…black/white…true/false….right/wrong…gay/straight…us/them….in/out…Brexit/remain…Republican/Democrat…guns/no guns…Palestine/Israel…etc… If you’re not convinced just try posting your shade of perspective on anything & prepare to be trolled.

The Apostle Paul writes to the very divided multicultural church in Rome who were judging each other about certain foods, holy days and rituals. He concludes that all these things are ‘DISPUTABLE MATTERS’ or subject to NUANCE and it was the deliberate removal of any allowance for nuance that created the social pressure to ‘take sides’ in the church.

He went on to teach us that in Christ there’s no Jew/gentile…male/female…slave/free… but that we are all ONE in the ‘NUANCE ALLOWING’ CHRIST JESUS Tyranny is when I control the debate and deny you any grey because I’m addicted to black or white. Nuance is the difference between allowing my first impressions to shut me down and realising there’s far more information and perspective here that I would benefit from knowing. Do you like GREEN? .. if so which one?

There are over 500 official shades of green. But that becomes over one MILLION when you factor in how we each perceive colours differently through our own unique photoreceptors (remember that internet dress?) We go to war over ‘green’ not realising that we actually all love green, just different shades. There is no right or wrong GREEN! God so loved the world that he didn’t create one shade of anything. Lets not build lives or churches that deliberately remove nuance…it’s a TYRANNY.

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If you could take an early church believer and put them into today’s church they’d be shocked at what most leaders spend their time doing.  The book of Acts tells us that the early church DEVOTED THEMSELVES (Acts 2:42) to personal growth and community service. 

The reason the church exploded so quickly was because the devotion to God and humanity came from the grassroots up, not the top down.    In Acts the leaders were free to lead because they weren’t worn out trying to persuade and remind people to be in church pray, give and serve.  You cannot manufacture or sustain another persons devotion.

If you do they will expect it and your ministry becomes one of BORROWED DEVOTION and manufactured energy.  PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS... ( Especially you younger pastors) I really want you to understand something that became a massive game changer in my leadership🙏🏼

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Left handed leadership in a right handed world is about what the 90% right handed world can learn from the 10% left handers.  Left handers despite their tiny minority have had a massive effect on human history.

Militarily, architecturally, musically and in sports, politics and the highest levels of leadership south paws have had a huge disproportionate influence on mankind’s evolution.  This message looks into the neuroscience of how the brain is cross wired and the implications of that for right handed left brain people vs left handed right brain people.

It’s another subject who’s time has come because the world has already entered a whole new era which is replacing the Information Age and this new world order favours left handers who are right brain dominant.

I want to speak to our right handed world about the need for us to develop more right brain skills in order for us to flourish in this new era. 

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IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND MY STRUGGLE YOU WILL MISUNDERSTAND MY STRENGTH

A persons strength is governed by the struggle they're in. Because we are more aware of the strength than we are of the struggle behind it we often misread them.  If you can't find out more about someone's struggle than don't be quick to miss judge the strength they must have to survive that struggle.

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he difference between liberation and freedom is an enemy not a friend. Friends create comfort but enemies create movement. Without an enemy your present is permanent.

God used Pharaoh and the bricks without straw scenario to force movement amongst a people who had become attached to an enemy they thought couldn’t get any worse.

The problem wasn’t ‘Let my people go’ it was WILL MY PEOPLE LET GO? Liberation often requires an irritation for it to become freedom and a bricks without straw situation will always do the job.

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Maybe you keep choosing to live in jail but don’t realise it. You don’t realise it because you feel ‘free’ in the company of friendly jailers.

It feels safer living inside the cell of certain people’s acceptance and approvals, than it does to break out and risk their rejection. I pray that you will find the courage to leave your ‘friends’ prison because a smiling jailer is still your enemy.

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STEP OUT OF STUCK based on the encounter Jesus had with the severely disabled man waiting for a miracle at the pool of Bethesda in John 5. This poor man was not only paralysed and stuck physically but also mentally emotionally and relationally. He was STUCK because he had spent decades at Bethesda, a place that was rigged for failure and disappointment.

I’m using BETHESDA as a metaphor for anytime you’ve got stuck in your life. Bethesda can be any place, person or situation that promises breakthrough whilst locking you into a system, structure and culture that denies your breakthrough. 

BETHESDA is a place of highly organised failure and systemic disappointment. Many people are stuck in life by their highly organised fear, guilt, shame, anger, regret and failure. This severely disabled man waiting for a miracle at Bethesda didn’t realise that his miracle would be in leaving Bethesda the problem WAS Bethesda.

Jesus told him to STEP OUT OF STUCK.. leave the system and go home and millions of us need to do the same.  Don’t keep surrendering your life to other people’s Bethesda’s and leaders stop creating Bethesda churches and organisations.

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John tells us that Jesus wouldn’t entrust himself to people because he knew what people were like. (John 2v24)

I call this always keeping a little 2% of you back that you never give to another person. A piece of you that you never entrust to anyone but God. 

That 2% is the management of your expectations about humans. It’s for your personal Gethsemane’s when they will let you down. 

It’s for the crosses that you must face alone. 

This 2% could be the difference between fulfilling your destiny and quitting because of who quit on you. 

KEEP 2% IN RESERVE 🙏🏼 

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A ‘Transition Generation’ is one who has to be the bridge of continuity between the past and future.  In any war the enemy always targets the bridges first because bridges connect, supply and bring together. The greatest transition generation of all time the children of Israel have a few priceless lessons to teach all future transition generations.

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