With Paul, I can honestly say that I am “confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” God doesn’t leave projects half-finished or people on their own. Since he called you into pastoral ministry, he will see you through to the end.

This final post from November 27, 2017 tells you what I truly believe about you. Be encouraged! May God bless you!

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But when you’ve worked through the previous posts and made any changes you want to make, or if you’ve already done all that, here’s the good news. You have:

• reexplored your call and your mission
• become ever more grateful for all that God has given you
• refreshed your leadership
• gained a new, more sustainable way of working
• fallen in love with God all over again
• taken care of your soul
• held a spiritual retreat to pull it altogether and discern God’s continuing leadership of your ministry.

What is left to prepare yourself to reengage pastoral ministry as a revitalized you?

Only one thing comes to mind: Make sure you have joy!

Not just a little joy, but abundant joy! Joy that fills you to overflowing. Joy that spills over into everyone around you. Joy that makes people want to follow your leadership.

Enthusiasm, energy, passion, faith: each of these will be supercharged as joy flows throughout every part of your character and personality and makes you a leader who is attractive to the board and staff.

Here’s a post that will help you develop abundant joy!

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There are many ways to do a spiritual retreat. This post from September 6, 2010 has some suggestions to consider. However you hold your retreat, enjoy your time with God.

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This post from August 29, 2016 reminds us all of ways to keep personal spirituality healthy.

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This post from November 11, 2011 is about rekindling your first love for Jesus. While your love is most likely very deep and real, it never hurts to be reminded about how to keep it alive.

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With a renewed understanding of your call and mission and having refreshed your pastoral leadership, take this opportunity to find a better way of working that is measured and reasonable. Fortunately, it’s not hard to find the better way because we have Jesus as our model. This post, from January 25, 2017, shows how Jesus wants you to work, and the good news is, that includes a sustainable pace.

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This post from July 17, 2017 will help you develop a grateful heart.

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Here’s my testimony about the linked post. I wrote it based on my own experience of digging deep into the CCCC mission statement. I find it very exciting to think about our statement: CCCC members will be exemplary, healthy, and effective Christian ministries. Just the idea of thousands of churches and agencies further living up to that description excites me because of the greater effect they will have on Canadians and our society.

But there’s much more to get excited about!

When I think about what we have to do to fulfill our mission statement, all I can say is I get so excited I can barely contain myself! Plumbing the depths of a mission statement makes it very clear what must be done to achieve it and I look forward to developing or tweaking the programs that will do the job.

This post from April 12, 2021 walks you through a process to discover how your mission statement can transform your church’s priorities and programs. You will be thrilled with the result. And best of all, as a pastor you get the fun of implementing the ideas.

I can’t overstate the impact your mission statement can have. It resulted in CCCC changing its name and its branding, while leading to new programs and a new corporate ethos. Check this post out and discover its power for yourself!

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1. You represent what the church is all about, its ethos and its activities. Your congregation needs to see you modeling how they can live the mission.
2. You are the chief advocate for the church’s mission, making the mission foundational to everything the church does. Show the congregation how the mission drives decisions at the church.
3. You are the primary evangelist for your mission. When you talk up the mission, people will see that the mission excites you and then it will excite them too. Your passion for the mission will become their passion for the mission as well.

To help you fulfill your figurehead role, this post from March 27, 2010 gives ways to boost your passion for the church’s mission, so you can be its best representative, advocate, and evangelist.

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