Overcommunicate to your teams – especially about important strategies that you have been thinking about and mulling over for a long time. On the surface, it seems obvious, but we often forget – when we have lived with an idea for a long time, we often have internal dialogs and conversations, going over the plusses and minuses of whatever initiative we’re focused on. It’s easy to lose track of which conversations actually happened in the real world, especially if it’s something we’ve really been obsessing over…
Long story short? Thinking about something a lot is NOT the same as expressing it. It’s easy to fool ourselves into assuming that we’ve gotten the word out when in actuality it’s been mainly in our heads. So – back to the beginning… Overcommunicate.
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I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
Oh yeah - the name's Greg. Greg Wallace. But not the race car driver or the major league pitcher or the British celebrity chef. Just the creative worship guy. Hi.
It's my hope that these ideas, musings, rants, raves, etc... will inspire you. They're just my opinions - but again, I hope that they'll help to inspire you. Because the church really, really needs inspired creative types. If you're a creative type (and most people are, deep-down), ask God for help. Then take any ideas that are useful to you - borrow them, nab them, use them, adapt them - and make them into something greater...
You can head over to my Instagram site for an abundance of shorter posts: creativeworshipideas. If you're looking for consulting - especially on weekend services, team leadership or multi-site strategies - I'd love to help. Just message me here, and I'll be in touch - Greg
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