Over the past few weeks I’ve been listening to a teaching series from North Point Community Church, called “Practically Speaking.”

I highly recommend any person that has an active role in their church to listen to this. It really challenged a lot of my thoughts about church life, and it reinforced my thoughts at times.

Lesson two and three hit me the most. Lesson two was as if somebody had walked behind me and critiqued the Batavia Church of Christ as we walked through their doors the first few weeks. Lesson three was as if somebody watched my life for the past year and saw what went astray at a previous church in relation to my family attending their.

I’ve always been a strong believer that not every church will be for everybody. There are some churches that would be the worst place in the world for me. There are some churches that would be OK for me to be at. There are then some churches that are exactly what I need. And the truth is that this can change over time. For example I really do feel that at the beginning the previous church was where I needed to be at. I think my time there was an overall net positive. I was used to lead a man to Christ. Then it went to it being an OK place to be at, and was quickly heading toward it being the worst place for me. Had we stayed longer it probably would have went back through the cycle… it may not have.

You can go listen to this series from the website focused on it. This is really a must listen for folks in any form of leadership capacity.