Church Planting

A common strain that many pastors feel is the pressure of not being able to miss a Sunday. In their own way, each one says the same thing: “I don’t feel like I have anyone on my team who can do what I do…” At Next Level Church, we have several capable communicators on our…

For 8 years now, we have refused to buy into the whole Summer Slump theory at Next Level Church. Instead, we’ve worked under the theory that if people are home, then why not give them a reason to come to church & bring someone else w/ them? (After all, in this economy, stay-cations are becoming…

4. Give Encouragement Hope-Fully. If there is one thing people lack in their lives, it’s hope. Every not only needs hope, but would love to have more hope. When we encouragement someone else, we deposit hope into their heart. Hope that they can be better than they are today. Hope that someone else in the…

2. Make Encouragement Personal. When it comes to encouraging those around us, the more personal we can make our encouragement, the better. General encouragement is fine, especially if there really is nothing else positive to say, but whenever possible, we must focus on Specific, Personal Encouragement. The more specific a compliment is, the more power…

One of the most important things a leader does is give encouragement. Encouragement is to leadership, what Oxygen is to the soul. The people we lead cannot survive without it. Something within every human being makes us desperate for encouragement. Things die when there is no encouragement. When a married couple stops encouraging one another,…

The last dimension according to Michael Gerber in his book, Awakening the Entrepreneur within, is: The Leader By far, leadership is the most important. You can have a great vision or dream, think strategically about that dream, and even tell the story of the dream effectively, but if you don’t have the ability to lead…

This week, we’re looking into what Michael Gerber calls the 4 Dimensions of the Entrepreneurial Personality. The 3rd Dimension could be my favorite because it is: The Storyteller. No vision will ever come to reality unless an Entrepreneur becomes great at telling the story. People cannot and will not connect with a vision without a…

The 2nd Dimension of the Entrepreneurial Personality as described in Michael Gerber’s book, Awakening the Entrepreneur Within is: The Thinker. Michael says that the Thinker is the “HOW” behind the “WHAT” of the Dreamer. In my experience, it really is true that every Entrepreneur must have some Thinker in them as well as a healthy…

The first of the four dimensions of the Entrepreneurial Personality as described in Michael Gerber’s new book, “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within” is The Dreamer. Every great church, organization or business begins as a Dream. And in the Dream State, they are amazingly fragile. A Dream can be crushed, shattered or broken with just the slightest…