Leaders Retreat Presentation September 25, 2010: Specific Mindset, a New Way of Thinking (Part 2)

Persistence is one of the hallmarks of a solid church and institution, and at the last meeting we were able to achieve something very nice, and I think that the rhythm we established and the way we flowed was beautiful, and I hope we don't let our guard down, but rather Let's always keep it the same. I know that accidents happen, things happen and everything, but what often happens in institutions is what they call institutional drift, there are many names for it, but it's like things start at a certain level but are forgotten, forgotten the visions, the mission statements are forgotten, the agreements are forgotten, the assignments are forgotten and it seems like it is practiced for a month, two months and then the attention that is so necessary for the proper functioning of any institution is lost.

And one of the things that I very much want as a pastor and as a leader of this institution that we cultivate a culture of, we talk about excellence, and Pentecostals love to talk about the word excellence, but it's like a cliché that we don't really understand what which means, excellence is effort, it is sweat, it is boredom, it is to prevail over boredom. That is excellence. It's not something cute, magical, tasty, it's a lot of work. And your ministries, my ministry, our lives, my life, and everything we do should reflect that level of height and that effort and let's just understand that, because when we start like this so late, everything falls apart and then everything kind of loses its rhythm. And it is very easy to say, well, this happened, that happened, there is always a reason, but it is good to always try as much as possible in our life, and if we make a mistake, we admit it and move on. That is what I want to do because I want you to get used to that in your ministries, in your lives, and I also want to get used to that in my own life.

So, thanks, sorry about that, but we're going to catch up and we're going to finish at the time we said. Well, the question is that. I'm going to give you a solid 45 minutes for, I'm trying to learn how to do that too, thanks, Miguel. There is only a metaphor for something we want to learn, that aspect of diligence. But then again, Wendy started very well with that idea of a body and the importance of structures. A body needs bones, a church needs structure.

When we come here and worship the Lord and the spirit moves and there is blessing and God flows, behind it there are people who washed the bathrooms at night, brother Roberto fixed the chairs, electricity was paid because people tithed, someone opened the doors early in the morning, signs were put up for the parking lot, and someone was assigned to do that and someone was paid to do that. There is a whole structure under the magic. Am I clear? and many times we don't understand that, do you know why? Because we are not taught that, especially the Latino world has it twice, churches like ours, because we are Hispanic or Latino and because we are charismatic Pentecostals, because that is not emphasized in our world, neither culturally nor spiritually many times.

We have a very fiery church but it lacks structure. And I believe that God has given me something that is like a word that I believe is something like prophetic, that every day now wherever I go God sort of makes me talk about it, about the importance of developing a new way of thinking, a different mindset.

How many were at the last leadership retreat? That's what we talked about, remember, in a new way of thinking. We were saying that the church of Jesus Christ needs to develop a new form. The world is an expert in that and that is why they lead us a distance and a mile advantage. The people of the world understand that very well. We supposedly spirit-filled people don't get it, and so our churches are always limping along.

What we have is very good rhetoric, we do have that. We beat anyone talking. We come to church and in a moment we say, we declare it, we have it, we do it, it is mine in the name of Jesus, I can do all things in Christ. We get out of here, our lives don't express that.

And what God has put in me is a hunger for integrity in that sense that our lives, and our ministries reflect what we say we are supposed to have and want. And that must be reflected in all areas. And to get to that you have to go through these processes, the structure, learn to think in terms of structures and develop that left part of the brain.

Why I picked the topic, if you're looking for entrepreneurial mindset elements there, I'm going to pick up on that in a moment, and I'm going to…. but there are so many other things I want to say that I will touch what I can in the time I have. And I want to continue with that theme, because I don't want to get away from that theme for a long time until you understand what I mean by that and we can internalize it as individuals, as churches.

And I was talking, remember, about the fact that there are two faculties in the Christian life, one faculty is what I would call the spiritual, mystical faculty, which is the part that has to do with the gifts of the spirit, the anointing, holiness, the spiritual warfare, adoration, all these things that open magical doors in the world of the spirit, prayer, that is very important. A healthy, strong spirituality, attachment to the word, knowledge of the word of God, powerful use of the word of God. All those things are tools that I would call, so to speak, spiritual, the gifts of the spirit.

Charismatic Pentecostal people fall in love with it and forget about the other part that in the Bible we see it in many, many different parts. What happens is that we are only taught to pay attention to one part and not pay attention to the other. The other part is what I would call the strategic, intellectual, cerebral part, which is the part of administration, discipline, execution, study, self-control, development of one's leadership. All that part that we don't like because it sounds boring to us, structure, organization, planning, all these things, because we think it contradicts the other part. And both parts are necessary.

I think that there are many people who think that I am not spiritual enough or knowledgeable about the gifts, because I emphasize that a lot. And sometimes when there is a moment in the service when I stop someone, or say we have to continue, or whatever, they think, it is stopping the spirit, it is because we do not understand that there must be a balance between the two things. If I had time I would develop it further, but a balanced spirituality needs both dimensions.

If you are too strong in one area and weak in another, you are going to be limping. And something very important is going to be missing. Understand this, because if you don't get it, you're going to be deficient your whole life as a leader. What I look for, people ask me, what is your vision, pastor? My vision is a balanced church, a church that can walk on those two tracks of the spiritual Christian life. And if you take me seriously and take that seriously, I assure you that you are going to grow and develop a lot as leaders and our church is going to grow more and more every day.

That is something that I want to emphasize and I wish I had more time to develop it but I will leave it there for a moment. Now, we're going to this one, because everything we're saying about these forms, why are we doing these meetings? Because we made an agreement that it is important that our leaders all flow in harmony and in accordance with certain shared values, that there is not a sector of the church thinking, no, this church must go in this direction, the spiritual direction, more fasting, more prayer, more holiness, more praise, more vigilance. And another group saying, no, more discipline, more administration, more organization, more technology, more strategy. And each one throwing stones at the other because we don't understand that it is both. Am I clear?

So these meetings are because we want to promote a church that flows in harmony, all the leaders receiving the same diet, being trained, taught and growing. For example, when our brothers show these forms, maybe we don't have all the answers right now, maybe it wasn't all that clear, but that's how it starts. When a child begins to speak, he begins by babbling, and one patiently encourages him until he speaks in clear sentences, clear words, complete sentences, and then paragraphs.

And so it is with this, we are trying to develop these forms, these agreements so that everyone knows, so that there is no confusion. For me, the most important thing about that discussion, because I couldn't follow everything at the time, was the lack of coordination we had about who to call in an emergency. It is not so much the form, because that brings to light one thing and that is that many times we, that the centralization, call the pastor, we call Gregory. And so, there is no delegation, there is no decentralization, so there is one person who is the one who carries the load.

Now, when a church knows, no, that is the leader who is in charge of that department, that person is called, that person has to go, not the pastor. So that kind of decentralization creates a healthy church. Because? Because if the pastor dies of a heart attack, what will happen then, where will they go? As the institution grows and develops, it has to do without the main leader or the founding leader. That is a law of the institution, be it a church, be it non-profit, be it a corporation. The more it depends on a single person, the weaker it is because if that fragile support falls, the entire structure goes with him or her. And that is why it is necessary to decentralize.

How many columns are there that you can see? One, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and there are others that cannot be seen. If one falls, if one breaks, I think there may still be time to strengthen it, but if there is only one, everything collapses. So, it is very important that there is decentralization. That's one of the marks of a well-developed institution, Pentecostal or non-Pentecostal.

I tell you, all the prayer in the world is not going to save a church that lacks structure. That's how it is. I know very spiritual churches that are a disaster and if I could I would give you a very recent example of that. Let's be balanced, brothers, let's not be children. We already have to go to maturity, this church has to continue to go to maturity. Am I being a bit shady or not?

Because these are things that I think are important. Look, let's get to this business mindset stuff. I put this up here, and I don't know if there's another sheet as well that talks about hints of the entrepreneurial mindset, less elegant, but it's there too. I wrote this at the last minute, this morning, before leaving. I said, wait, this idea, and I got there in 30 seconds I wrote it. I didn't have time to type it out but you'll see that it's also important if I have time to discuss it.

The point is why this? Maybe if you weren't at the last session, you're going to be a little lame about this, but I beg you to go with me. I spoke of that specific way of thinking. If you read your Bible Ecclesiastes 11, I believe that there in Chapter 11 verse 1 is outlined what an entrepreneurial mentality is. So in a nutshell, or part of it, where it says:

“…Cast your bread on the waters because after many days you will find it. Deal to 7 and even 8 because you don't know the evil that will come on earth… and in verse 6,…. In the morning sow your seed and in the afternoon do not let your hand rest because you do not know which is the best, if this or that or if one and the other is equally good..."

Why do I speak of an entrepreneurial mentality? The word entrepreneurial, I think in English is much more expressive, entrepreneurial, you know how companies are. Companies are always diversifying, developing, looking for new ideas, holding various experiments, testing new products. You see how Wendy does. Wendy takes out a new hamburger with cheese and barbecue sauce, and they throw it to the market to try. If it works, they leave it on the permanent menu, if not, they remove it and bring another with a quesadilla with chicken or whatever to see if that fits in the Latin environment of the United States.

And they are always testing. They are always doing new things, they are always inventing. That is why throw your bread into the waters, distribute to 7 and 8, diversification, inventing things, dynamism, and also that mentality that is organized, that is always thinking of something new, that is planning, that is not content with the status quo but it is always looking for how to develop itself, how to develop new forms, new products, new programs. That is something well, well, important for the life of a church.

For me some of the qualities that we as a church, because we want to be a business church, and a mind that thinks, an institution that thinks in these terms. One of the things that is typical of that type of Congregation or ministry, also think about your ministry, if you are an usher, if you lead the ministry or are working in the men's ministry, if you are an associate pastor of the church, fathers , parenting ministry, English as a Second Language, stewardship ministry, think of ministry as I talk about these things. At the same time that I speak of the church as a church, also where we want to go.

I believe that one of the things that distinguishes a business institution, a business church, is a high level of energy and initiative in leadership. I long for dynamic, edgy leaders, eye-rolling people, people who are always thinking about how to help their church, how to develop, how to do new things.

I'll give you an example, not to praise Miguel, but sometimes I'm sitting here in the Sunday service and I just give a look, a gesture of the neck and Miguel immediately comes to ask me if I need something. He doesn't do it because he wants to flatter me, it's because Miguel has a very disciplined mentality and to solve problems and help with something. And Erenia, for example, to talk about other people, because there are many here who could, who exemplify, when we assign something, she is always looking for a better way to do it, a form, and it has become almost essential in many areas of the ministry of deacons. and in other things.

And many of you fit into that category. I am pointing out just two, many of you fit into that category, you are dynamic people. I want this church to be a high-energy church and for our leaders to exemplify that, because the indolent leader, the passive leader, the leader who waits for things to be told, the leader who settles for the minimum, the leader who doesn't They ask me to do it, because I'm not going to do it, it can't reach the level it has to reach. Inventive people are needed.

I believe that an entrepreneurial church is a church where there is a high level of energy, where there is effort. For example, in the ministry of ushers, if the person isn't happy just standing against the wall and if they see a person who walked in there and they see them a little bit in the middle of the service, and they see them as a little confused looking, that person should not say, well, the service has already started, that's their business, and there they or whatever. Sometimes we don't even think that, we just don't even think. We see the person but there is no connection between our brain and that phenomenon that is taking place at that moment.

Whereas an entrepreneurial person, they immediately see that, and it's like throwing meat to a hungry dog, they feel a pull, there's a possible problem, maybe it's not a problem, maybe the person is just looking for someone who's holding a seat for them, but that person, something in his nervous system is activated and he goes because he feels, they are calling me and he approaches the person and asks, brother, can I help you? And if they don't come, do you understand?

That's high energy. A business church is where things are happening, a business church, a business ministry is where there is momentum, there is growth, there are leaders who are being trained, there are restless people, there are people who are... that's why these ministries grow. Cast your bread into the waters because after many days it will return to you.

The ministries that grow, brothers, why does God say, a strong and courageous man? God is always calling us strong and brave men and women. Because it is that God likes hard-working people, not flattened people. When you heard the Lord say to you, God is with you, a flattened and cowardly man. You will never find it in the Bible. No, no, God wants dynamic, highly dynamic people who invest, who make an effort and a church where things are happening. That is for me one of the qualities, a high level of energy and initiative. Everyone say initiative. Don't be content with being told what to do, ask yourself, what should I do? And God honors that leader and that leader grows, that leader God blesses and prospers him, brothers. I assure you of that.

Second, a church minded or highly entrepreneurial ministry or leader. In this environment there is a lot of experimentation and establishment of new projects. A church that is content, or a ministry with simply doing the same things, where there is inertia, where what was done last year is what is done today, the same procedures, there is nothing new. That person, that church, that ministry is not growing.

I know that sometimes I put a lot of pressure on the leaders or on the pastoral team, because when I see an opportunity, Meche is always trying to hold my horse, in that sense, yes, there are many things that...

For example, we have been talking, God has opened a door to improve the operation of the bookstore. It is a very interesting project that has emerged. God put that in my path with a couple of people, I'm not going to get ahead of myself, we are in that process, but that adds a little time and tension at the beginning. I'm not sure I have all the pieces in my mind about them. There will be a bit of mess and mess to clean up in the process, but I know that this is a good thing, it is promising, it can enrich the life of the church, it can advance. I look, amen, I seize the opportunity and along the way I will improve and perfect and God will provide.

And we can talk like that about so many things. I wanna is something that something that has been coming up in the last two and a half years, three years? And actually he's kind of come into powerful life in the last year or so. At the beginning a lot of mess, but little by little and it was a new thing that was attracted. There are also other things that happen, other ministries, different things are tested.

A highly entrepreneurial church is where there is experimentation and establishment of new projects. The leader who is only satisfied with the status quo, brothers, I love, I adore people who don't wait for me to tell them what to do, but instead say, pastor, what do you think of this idea? Delmi Chacón or Martínez Chacón is one of the people who specializes in that area of being restless, of inventing new things. Sometimes I just tell her something and she takes it and when she comes to see, it goes 10 times more than what I had in mind before and she puts pressure on me then, but that's very important.

There has to be experimentation, there has to be new projects. There must be restless people who like to do new things. But for that a high level of energy is required, people are also required animated by the Holy Spirit, because if it were by my own strength I believe that I would have decayed long ago, but God in some way renews me, because I ask him , Lord, let it not be in my physical strength, but in your spirit. And it is a blessing.

I know that there are many things that I could add to clarify this, I agree. There was an error there 13 equals 12. Let's go to 4. Another element of business mindset. Attention to vision and persistence in vision. What I mean by this? Our vision is to be an exemplary, model church that exemplifies the best values of the Kingdom of God, showing excellence in social activity, administration, and training of its leaders to be useful instruments and help develop other leaders. Essentially that is the idea.

Well, that vision keeps me tied up and motivates me. Each of those words has something to do with it and I always try to see, okay, we're making progress so it's just a rhetorical thing that we say it because it sounds nice. What is the vision of your ministry? And so you are every day in everything you do, trying to lead?

For example, why are we doing this? Because we want to be good at managing and training our leaders to be instruments and to help develop other leaders. What we are doing today obeys that part of the vision. And every time we get together, and every time you make time to come here, I applaud you and bless you for taking these three and a half, four hours out of your Saturday to come to this, and I love seeing such a good number so beautiful of you, that you represent the best of this Congregation and the most powerful ministries of this church.

Because you are also there, you want to be powerful leaders, you want to be capable people, you want your leaders to respond as well. If you get something good out of this meeting, you're going to go and pass it on to your people and you're going to be an infectious leader.

So, I'm trying to obey that. There is a word alignment between the institutions, how aligned are the activities and the functioning of your ministry to your vision. It is the same, if in your personal vision, I want to be an intellectually capable woman, an educated person, who knows something about the history, the culture of humanity, well, when was the last time you went to a museum? When was the last time you read a book about art? When was the last time you saw a documentary about some aspect of human history? What do you know about the history of France? Or the history of Colombia? Are you instructing yourself? Because if you want to be an educated person and that's part of your vision, what specifically are you doing to advance that vision?

Luis, as a doctor that he is, runs a clinic and he wants his clinic to reflect the best values, the precision, let's say, that good medicine, a practice, deserves. Okay, what is he doing to train his employees in that area? That they read the charts well, that there is precision in measuring things, that there are good care and professionalism practices, that there is good customer care, that the bills are sent on time and paid on time, and that there are no errors. You understand?

That is, how is your practice aligned with your vision? Be it your ministry, be it your personal life, be it our church. So, that's why we do these things, because if we say we want well-developed leaders, well, that's not done in the Sunday service, it's not even there, well in part discipleship, no, in these moments when we're dealing with of very concrete things and we create a mentality, that is where this type of thing is achieved. That's why this is important.

There is time to pray and to fast. Some people I tell them, fast and pray, to others I tell them look, fast less, and study more. Speak less in tongues and take me an English class. Don't show up to church on a Wednesday for 6 weeks and take me a Microsoft Word course, and let that be your worship of the Lord. When you are hitting the keys, Lord, I adore you, I bless you, thank you, Father, that your fingers adore God saying, I want to be the best instrument for God and I need this tool.

You know what the monks of the Middle Ages said, work is part of a way of worshiping God. And that is why they do their work with the land and the construction of their monastery, washing the dishes of the other monks. They were worshiping the Lord. Work worships God. It is that we have a very narrow mind, brothers, we have to get out of the childish mentality and enter the maturity that God requires.

So it is important to pay attention and persist in the vision. We have spent years and we still have not completely achieved it and we will never achieve it, but we must persist in them. If you fall off the horse, get on again. Ok, if we fail at something today, I'm not saying it to attack, I'm not just saying it, ok, look at this, let's move on.

One of the things in the Latino churches and the charismatic Pentecostal churches and in many other churches as well, things are not discussed, and we think that when they are discussed they are fighting. No. On Thursday we had a meeting with the worship leaders, very large, an hour and a half, we were talking about beautiful, strong, clear things, but I left there joyful, it's good that in our church you can talk about things without the people go to the fists. Important things can be said, uncomfortable and everything, it is necessary that in an institution there is good communication and hard, difficult, tense, worked communication and that at the end of it, we embrace and see each other as brothers that now we are more brothers because we understand each other better.

You have to promote. One of the qualities of a great institution, a great ministry, WPG or whatever, is painful communication in the love of Christ, with mercy, love, forgiveness, and willingness toward a solution, no matter how long it takes. Any institution, any group, worship, we have been in the praise group, do you know how many months we have been working on that difficult mass? But I'm still there and I'm still stuck to it, because for me, I have to persist in the vision and I see that yes, we are improving, little by little. And it doesn't bother me that there is strong communication, because to reach the vision there has to be honesty, there has to be transparency in the right way.

In your marriage there must be communication and what is not healthy must be discussed. In friendship there has to be communication because there is a vision of what we want. So, attention and persistence in vision.

Strategic thinking. I put a lot of things here, it's a brainstorm one day. Strategic thinking, you have to think strategically. We are doing that here, by meeting, this is one of several other meetings that we will have and the second that we have had, and it has been years, because we have a strategy, we want to go in one direction, we are strategizing.

That building that we are doing out there is part of a strategy, we want to conquer. And to conquer, you need fortresses, you need tools, you need weapons because strategy presupposes that there is a long-term target and there are a series of actions that are going to be planned and taken to reach that target. That's what, I don't have all the time, but strategic thinking.

How are you thinking about your ministry? Where do you want your ministry to be in 3 years, 1 year, 2 years? And what are you doing to get there? What are the pieces like you have dismantled that high vision that your ministry has and what goals and instruments, practices, actions, relationships, are you forging yourself to reach point Z if you are in B or C? How will you go there? That is strategic thinking. What things are you doing?

Long term vision. That is part, that's why I put them together because they are part of one… persisting in the vision means having a long-term vision. There are people who do something, if it didn't work, their attention stand is very little, that's why I sometimes say to a leader, look, I need you to do this and they do it for the first 3, 4 weeks and then they get lost, they forget . And so we live all the time in life saying, we are going to do this, we are going to do that and it is not done, it starts and then it decays, because we do not have a long-term vision.

When you set a goal, stick to it, keep going, be patient. Don't be discouraged because it didn't work right the first time. follow. Persist and say even if I don't reach it today, I will reach it later. That is why in that passage it says, because after many days you will find it. Invest now and think long term because the vision will come.

And you have to have clarity in the vision, declare it, write the vision says in Habakuk, Chapter 2, so that whoever reads it runs for it. You have to be clear. What is your vision made up of? Well, I want to be a good father. What does that mean? You mean, I have to spend time with my children, number 1, number 2, I have to be patient with them, number 3, I have to be an active presence in their lives, number 4, I have to learn to forgive them a lot, number 5, I have to stimulate and encourage them to become something powerful, number 6, I have to ask for their forgiveness when needed, number 7, etc. Etc.

What does it mean to be a good father? That is very broad, that requires ten volumes, reduce it to ten things and spend ten years until you reach it. And you're not going to reach it even in those 10 years. But you have to be clear.

Specificity is one of the great qualities of great leadership, to be specific, to be clear, to break things down into their constituent parts, to develop the ability to see things in their sequence, not to see a mass of principles but to drop them one by one and put it on the table and then reassemble it so that it is something alive. It is one of the great things, clarity, specificity and thinking small and sticking to one thing and then working on another and then working on another, very important, right?

All this has to do with that of vision, etc. Number 5, this has to do with the other thing that I was saying about the vision, alignment of activities, ministries, leadership styles with the vision. That's why I said, one of the things we hope for is that one day, and every day, our church will produce more and more a type of leader that is recognizable.

Do you know what he said, the Pharisees said and they found out that they had walked with Jesus, did they realize why? Because perhaps they reflected the values of Jesus, they spoke like Jesus, they behaved like Jesus, they rebuked demons like Jesus, they healed like Jesus, because they had been infected with the spirit of Jesus and when they saw them they said, look, that one belongs.

I believe that we are looking for a type of leader and a type of ministry in León de Judá that always proceeds concretely, specifically, clarifying that there is good communication, that there is no abuse of authority, that there is subjection to authority, leaders who when commit to something, execute it.

All this that I have said, leaders who have initiative, leaders who have a passion for the Kingdom of God, leaders willing to pay the price, sacrificial leaders, generous leaders with their money, leaders of integrity and holiness. What we want is for these values to be aligned and for the institution, one of the things that gives me joy, although this church is infinitely far from being perfect, one of the things, someone was telling me on Friday , Josmar told me, many people say they come to the church and when they enter the building, either during the day or on Sundays, they say, there is peace here.

You don't know how many people have told me, me too. I was glad to know that than other people, because I have been told so many times. I say, wow, that's good! I love to hear laughter during the day in this church. There is a lot of laughter here. For me, one of the indications of the health of a family or an institution is that there is laughter. If there is laughter that says a lot.

And I like that here there is always laughter, people are laughing, they make jokes. There are tensions, of course, where there are none. But what I want to say is that an institution has to align with its values, because we have said that the fruit of the Holy Spirit is one of the things, the mission and vision of the church, the fruit of the Holy Spirit. I put that there because there are many churches that are very strong with the gifts, but look for the fruit of the spirit, meekness, love, humility, patience, kindness, peace, you will not find it because they focus on the gifts, they do not focus on the fruit.

So, there has to be alignment of activities. That is, that what is done responds to the goal, that the leaders reflect that, reflect an attitude of teamwork, delegating to others, training others, stepping aside so that others can grow. All those things, that for me are the values and we want our leaders to reflect that and that a leader does not feel comfortable if he does not reflect that, and that an entire ecology and an economy and a culture is created that when a leader does not fit In that mentality that is typical of León de Judá there are immediately invisible pressures that begin to configure it or configure it in the direction of what is the mentality of the church. I explain?

Because there is alignment. That if a leader is complacent and does not execute and is very lax, and does not submit to authority, immediately invisible forces line up to twist that and repress him until he conforms to the values of the church. And may this church produce a style that is recognizable as the style of the Lion of Judah. That is why for me adoration is so elusive, because it is something mystical, mysterious, spiritual, but there is a product that I have in my spirit and in my mind, and I will be fighting until it happens because I persist in the vision and because I like to be clear and because I have to help my leaders to be excellent.

One of the goals is that the worship of the Lion of Judah be world-class, that it could be put on a television screen and that 50 million people would see it and that it would live up to those 50 million. Not for 100 people or 50 Hispanics who understand each other and any little thing, well, it's beautiful because it's for God. That is what happens in many. No, no, let it be for world quality.

Why do people like Hilson and why has it come to have such an impact? Ask yourself why. Browse, read it, see the product. Yes, they will have their things too, of course, but it is because there are values that people recognize and I cannot say, no, we are fine because we are... No. We have the spirit of Christ too. And what happens is that we have to persist, there has to be clarity, there has to be persistence in the vision. Now, there has to be mercy, love, I understand all that, but you have to be implacable with us in that sense.

So alignment of activities. Organizational capacity, number 6. Continuous capacity development. What are we doing here today? Developing the capacity, forms, protocols, procedures, agreements, developing the capacity of each leader. I hope that you return to your leadership in your ministry, and you take some of those things with you, you leave here, I wait, restless. How can I produce a better ministry every day? How can I make those ushers shine for their martial discipline and that every flattened usher is crushed, that he is a jerk at the end of the day. No, excuse me, what I want to say is, again, that the system, you have everything weed out, perhaps the call of that person is not to be an usher, perhaps he should be an intercessor, there at home, praying without anyone put pressure on him, nor expect anything except God who understands his language.

But I believe that, again, the systems have that, in worship it is the same, in discipleship, there is a teacher who perhaps looks, does not prepare for his lesson, is not creative in his teaching. Well, we can try to build the capacity, but there comes a time when the system has to gently, lovingly push you out so that the excellence of the Kingdom of God can continue. You understand?

And we have to be, because it is for God and we have to represent the Kingdom of God well. So, than continually building capacity. Brothers, observe your leaders and observe yourself, and what is not right write it down and pray to the Lord and also ask that person, I know one thing, it is that I am not always as generous as I should be in communicating certain things. That is my character, I deal with it, I pray and I think I have improved a lot, but the truth is that sometimes I also ask for things so many times that by the tenth or thirtyth time I can be forgiven if I am a little impatient.

But again, it's important that we make lists of things that we shouldn't work on to make it better, better, better. Continuous capacity development. And there is no ultimately ideal way to communicate these things.

Good financial strategy, financial systems and controls. That is more for the church, but it can also be for leadership. We are having good numbers, there is good administrative capacity, etc., I am not going to insist too much on that.

Another thing, solid government structure, I am going to put congregational but it could be, ok, how do you govern, do people know clearly who to turn to in case of a situation? Is there a leadership that goes beyond the main leader? If I'm the only person giving out the cod, it's a serious problem, in a church. There has to be a government, there are deacons, there are people to whom I have to report and they report to me, there is distribution, there are leaders who are in charge of different areas, there is decentralization.

All this, good coordination between the main leader and his team. When I speak many times about these things, what I also want is to communicate my mind so that you understand why I do this, why I insist on that, why I react in this way or the other, so that you can understand me Good communication, I need to communicate with you so that you know my heart, why I do this or why I don't do the other. That's part, we don't have all the time.

Diversity of ideas. In a church there must be different people thinking, not only the main leader, suggestions that are taken into account, that enrich.

Process in decisions, decisions are not made unilaterally but are worked on, discussed together.

He realizes, I have to give an account to you, I am not Moses coming down from Sinai with the tablets so that you obey them. I also have to account for my actions and decisions, why this, why that.

And there is transparency. If something was not done well, you have to admit it, you have to apologize and you have to try to improve it. There is a lot of cloth to cut.

There is teamwork. Today this is teamwork. I assure you, I have not done great things in this event. Thank God for people like Wendy, like David Díaz, like Erenia and so many others who have worked. You know who you are. 95%, I came here to give what was mine and thank you Lord, it's good that so many people work. I give glory to God for that. In this church so much is done, brothers, you can't imagine, and it's because hundreds of people literally do the work and glory to God for it. Teamwork. Delegation, decentralization.

And there is no nepotism. Beware of that, don't pick your friends or family just because they are your friends. It is an indication of a bad system, when there is nepotism. Nepotism is that, when the leader chooses his close people or his family and puts them, whether they are trained or not. This is not a dynasty, this is from the kingdom, here I have nothing, I do not own anything. Therefore I cannot say, to my sister or whoever, no, take this ministry. No, the idea is, are you qualified? And you have the support of others.

I'm done with this, quickly here. I put this like this. Signs of the entrepreneurial mindset. For me when a church is growing, or a ministry is growing, these are like small signs, indicators of an institution, a ministry, a life, a job that is sort of going in a certain direction. You are going to see and I am not glorifying the bureaucracy, I do not have time to clarify all this, you have to be very careful, but in those ministries there will be lists, protocols and procedures for things. You are going to see the use of email today. It took me a while to get to say that, but it's true. Clear objectives, measurement, are we achieving what we set out to do? 138 people came. How do we know it was 138? It was counted. Ok, there are lists. How do we know that I wanna deserve the money that is invested and the time and energy? There is a product and it is identified, assistance, children growing up, many things. Measurement of the objectives.

Execution, people commit to something, execute it, and keep executing it week after week, month after month. There is execution.

Churches many times make lists of commitments, promises are made, commitments are made, it is decided to change the world in 10 days and the next day everything is forgotten. Execution.

Accountability, giving accounts to others, that's the word in English is great. There is decentralization, there is delegation, there is subjection to authority, very important. There is honest communication, there is planning and there are committees that we sometimes say, committees, that is bureaucracy. But they are some elements that I believe exemplify when one sees these things in an environment and not only because they exist, but because there is life underneath it, because life demands this to order.

God always creates and then orders. Look in Genesis, you see, write that down and think about it. God creates and then orders. Give names, separate, divide, classify and that happens too. Our church has a lot of life and has had and now we are giving it a name, structure, organization, creating folders for all that life, putting one thing here, another there, another here, giving this a name.

There are committees, that is, there is organization, groups, etc. All of these things, when you see these little things, those little corn flakes jumping in an environment, be it your ministry, be it your life, be it your family, be it your work, be it León de Judá a church, these are some indications that you are progressing towards an entrepreneurial mindset.

Brothers, time is up, God bless you. Think about these things and may God allow us as a church to go more and more towards that point every day, because you know what? What is coming is big and we have to have good networks. Otherwise, our miraculous catch is going to be lost. So get ready and this is going to be a blessing to your lives. If you practice these things I assure you your family, your weight, your ministry, whatever it is, will change, it will reflect the height, the excellence of the Kingdom of God.

God bless you.