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Great Idea 2: Ask the Lord his Business

JOHN ADAIR

All leaders worthy of the name grow their businesses. The first question you have to ask yourself is what business are we in?

The business of the Church is the business of Jesus, ‘my Father’s business’, namely the coming of the kingdom of God on earth.

A healthy church is a community of purpose. It looks upwards and outwards, constrained only by the highest inner personal necessity, which is to love.

All healthy churches have a shared aspect. They all have that unmistakable Christian hallmark of humility. Like their individual members they simply and continually ask: ‘Lord, what will you have me to do?’