- Never allow your politics to hijack your faith.
- Never decide anything on a Monday.
- Never stop being curious.
- Never stop laughing…at yourself.
- Be fully prepared to preach on Sunday morning, with no excuses.
- Write your sermon out word for word, you aren’t smart enough to wing it.
- Quoting lots of Scripture does not make a sermon Biblical, the Devil did that.
- Tell us what God told you in your study, not what He told your favorite celebrity pastor.
- Your spouse is more important than your Church.
- Your spouse is the judge of the veracity of the above point…not you.
- Your spouse is the primary way the Holy Spirit speaks to your blind spots.
- Your spouse’s spiritual life is the best metric of your success as a pastor.
- God rarely gets in a hurry about anything.
- Your private life has a proportionate impact on the Kingdom.
- Be content with obscurity. (Jesus was)
- Being present is more important than the “Amen’s” you might receive for your sermon
- When someone says “several people are upset” that means me and maybe my spouse.
- The reasons people say they are leaving are rarely the real reasons.
- Sometimes losing a battle in organizational leadership is winning the war in pastoral care.
- Just because people fawn over you does not mean you are attractive; the pulpit distorts aesthetics.
- Never assess a church based on her potential—that commodifies her.
- Never leave a church based on her failure—that shames her.
- Never stay at a church because she is your “project”—that objectifies her.
- Always love a church based on her intrinsic value—that edifies her.
- God doesn’t do pyramids
- There is no such thing as a designer Ephod
- Today is more important than tomorrow
- You are not a celebrity.
- Never underestimate the sacrament of a shared meal
- Never preach while you are cursing.
- Always pray while you are serving.
- Never lust while you are loving.
- Always trust while you are hurting.
- Never value preaching over pastoring
- Never value knowledge over reflection
- Never value achievement over constancy
- Never value vision over presence
- Value wisdom over knowledge
- Value prayer over preaching
- Value solitude over meetings
- Listening is more important than telling.
- Weeping is more important than winning.
- Staying is more important than leaving.
- Praying is more important than achieving.
Field Notes On The Jesus Way 
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