The vacation season is about to hit our country with full-force. A well-planned vacation can be a wonderful experience. I suppose most of us, at some level, have planned a vacation. Planning a vacation is a common sense practice. Here are three essential tips to think about when planning your next vacation:
- Decide where you want to go
- Figure out what it takes to get there
- Begin your trip
Building a ministry is very similar to the tips above. Before you launch out into a ministry I highly recommend you think through these three things prior to launching. This past month I had the privilege of coaching nine people around the country on how to begin a ministry. Answering the tips above was part of their training.
Decide where you want to go
Where I want to go with my ministry is quite simple. I have two primary goals I want to accomplish through The Counseling Solutions Group, Inc.
- I want to reach every person on the planet with the Gospel.
- I want to live 25-years after I die.
These two ideas drive everything I do. If what I do does not fit into the framework of these two ideas, then I do not do it. It’s that simple. This is how I believe God has led me to glorify him.
The first goal is self-explanatory. The second goal means I want to extend my life beyond the grave. One of the ways I can accomplish this second goal is by replicating myself in other people. These two goals were the Savior’s. He came to preach the Gospel to “whosoever will” while his organizational objective was to replicate himself into others, so that his ministry would continue after he died.
Figure out what it takes to get there
With the two goals above in mind, I am now free to think about strategies, marketing, administration, training, counseling, branding, technology, revenue streams, and more in order to accomplish them. For example, there are several ways I think about and implement strategies to accomplish the goals above. Here are two of them:
- In order to reach every person on the planet and to extend my life beyond the grave I focus primarily on the training and the development of leaders. While I enjoy and will always do counseling, replicating myself in other leaders is my primary objective for this business. This is the quickest and most efficient way to extend the Gospel around the world and beyond the grave.
- Because I am finite, I have to think in “omnipresent ways.” This is where the redemptive purposes of technology assists me to expand my finitude around the earth. I can reach around the globe through Social Media, websites, blogging, and webinars. There has never been a time in the history of the world to reach so many people by such efficient means.
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I am passionate about counseling! However, at times I feel finite when it comes to my time to accommodate my counselee friends versus the counseling needs of these friends. Counseling has built-in limitations.
If you are a counselor, then let me encourage you to multiply yourself. Start a blog. Do something. Create ways to get your words, your thoughts, your life into the heads of those you love the most. Give them something to think about when they are not sitting in front of you. Create “mini-sessions” outside of your primary meeting time that will equip and envision those you serve.
