Mark Baterson, Pastor of National Comminity Church in the States, posted a list of “The Ten Most Important Lessons I’ve Learned Over the Past Ten Years”. I rather like them:

1. Pray ridiculous prayers
2. Be Yourself
3. Put Your Family First
4. Change of Pace + Change of Place = Change of Perspective
5. Leaders are Readers
6. Everything is an Experiment
7. 1% of What You Do Makes 99% of the Difference
8. Church is a tag-team sport
9. The Most Important and Most Difficult Job of a leader is creating culture
10. Market Internally