Fulcrum Point #4 Get Real
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Suggestions for Implementing this Fulcrum Point
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Leave room for Contrition, Confession and Brokenness in your services.
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Celebration will always get the Lion's Share of the time, but give some
time to repentance, deep prayer and confession of sin during the service.
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Leaders should model the life of confession.
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Read Teri's Story, exceprted from Future Church,
p. 135-7
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Don't create an atmosphere of "Mandated Happiness." Do people have
to be happy to come to your church or can they be whatever they are at
the time.
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Don't only use music in a major key. Do some "cranky" music.
Remember, there is a whole book in the Bible named "Lamentations"
Why not do some lamenting?
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Avoid "cliché" solutions and easy answers.
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Listen to Jack Allen talk about the importance
of not trying to have all the answers.
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Listen to Dieter Zander talk about the importance
of not over simplifying life.
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Before you preach a "how-to" sermon, make sure you can really do what you
are saying you can do.
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Allow leaders to step down from their pedestals and to include themselves
among those needing God’s Grace.
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Listen to Chris Kratzer talk about the imporance
of church leaders being real.
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Leaders shouldn't be the hero of every story they tell. They're human--they
need to be real and transparent.
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Allow leaders to be themselves.
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Listen to Mark Driscoll talk about how being
real is not an excuse for sin.
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