Leadership
Orange Week / Priorities
7:03 PM
This week is Orange Week on my blog and the blog of a lot of my friends! For more about that you can go HERE! So each day I am going to talk about Orange and something that the Conference has encouraged me to do or focus on. Orange does a fantastic job of saying a few things really well. And encouraging you to take a deeper look at something on a broad level so that you can figure out what the specifics look like for your team.
Soo each day I am going to launch from the thought that
Orange Encourages. .
I will never ever forget one of my favorite moments ever at
Orange. It was my first year and one of my ministry heroes was speaking.
You may know him. His name is Doug Fields! And he was talking about family
being a priority and really dove into the idea that if your family isn’t your
first priority then you success will be limited because if your most basic
priority is out of whack then other things will be as well. I will never forget
the moment he created when he said in the middle of his talk that there were
people in the room that need to leave this conference go home and apologize to
our wife and kids and make those relationships right!
The team at Orange does a great job of creating incredible
moments that lead you toward big thoughts and ideas. They help you process the
idea of what your priorities should be and that you should in fact set some.
Orange encourages Priorities. . . .
In your home – To
have a talk where the speaker tells you to leave the conference to get things
right with your family speaks to how passionately they feel about making sure that your
priorities are in the right place. Especially in terms of your family and putting them
first! They don’t just mention that is how they feel they intentionally make it
apart of what they say and communicate. Family matters and should come before
our job, even if our job is working in a church.
With your Team –
don’t work alone! This is a concept that I have spent a lot of time processing
because of things I have heard at Orange. I have spent a lot more time trying to
invest in the idea of team than I have doing more work. But had I never been
encouraged to do so I might still be on that same path of doing doing doing and
not building a team to attack ministry together!
In your work – Time
management is a huge part of my job. I have a lot I am responsible for week in
a week out. Sometimes I simply cannot get to it all. It just isn’t possible. So
if I dont have priorities in how I work and how I complete tasks then the most important
things may never get done! Jim Wideman leads a breakout every year to help you
process this very thing! He blew my mind the first year I was there!
In your Church – Have
you ever had your world rocked. The things you were so sure of that you thought
you would never deviate! I have. Happened to me at Orange 3 years ago. The idea
of keeping and maintaining the priorities that you church leadership has set
blew my mind. Not being a hindrance to the direction but helping it. Orange
wont encourage you to go home and attack your churches way of doing things.
Instead what they will do is encourage you to apply the principals the best you
can in your context. This idea changed the way I approached a lot of things!
Orange encourages priorities in you life, ministry, and
leadership. They don’t tell you what they should be. They just show you the
reason you should have some!
Only 80 days!
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