Ten Guidelines to Help You Achieve Your Long-awaited Promotion!

by Renner, Rick

• ISBN13: 9780972545464
• ISBN10: 0972545468
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Teach All Nations

Author Biography

Rick Renner is a highly respected leader and teacher within the global Christian community. Rick first fell in love with the Greek New Testament when studying Journalism and Classical Greek as a university student. In the years that followed, he continued his extensive study of the Greek New Testament, later earning a Doctor of Philosophy in Ministry. Rick ministered widely throughout the United States for many years before answering God's call in 1991 to move his family to the former Soviet Union and plunge into the heart of its newly emerging Church. Following an apostolic call on his life, Rick works alongside his wife Denise to see the Gospel preached, leadership trained, and the Church established throughout the world. Today Rick's broadcast ôGood News With Rick Rennerö can be seen across the entire former USSR, reaching a potential audience of more than 100 million viewers. He has distributed hundreds of thousands of teaching audio and videotapes, and his best-selling books have been translated into five major languagesùSpanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, and Germanùas well as multiple other languages that are spoken throughout the former Soviet Union. Rick is the founder of the Good News Association of Churches and Ministries, through which he assists and strengthens almost 700 churches in the territory of the former Soviet Union. He also pastors the fast-growing Moscow Good News Church, located in the very heart of Moscow, Russia. Rick Renner Ministries has offices in England, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. Rick, Denise, and their family live in Moscow, Russia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	13	(2)
Introduction	15	(2)
The Starting Place: The Acid Test for Leadership	17	(28)
Ten Guidelines To Determine if a Person Is Compatible With You	20	(1)
Unrealistic Expectations of Leaders Bring Only Disappointment	21	(3)
All Leaders Have Human Frailties	24	(4)
Unrealistic Expectations of Followers Also Cause Disappointment	28	(2)
Don't Move Too Fast	30	(1)
The Heart Is the Primary Issue	31	(1)
Called, But Not Ready	32	(1)
What's Inside a Person Eventually Comes Out	33	(2)
The Truth Is in the Fruit	35	(3)
Leadership Must Accept Responsibility For Those Appointed to Key Positions	38	(2)
The Reason I've Written This Book	40	(5)
Guideline Number One: Watch To See if the Potential Leader Has Desire	45	(32)
Watch Out for 'Fantasy-Chasers'	47	(4)
The Most Important Qualification For Leadership	51	(4)
People Who Do Just the Minimum	55	(2)
Your Leaders Will Reproduce What They Are Themselves	57	(4)
My Team in the Former Soviet Union	61	(3)
Many Obstacles To Overcome	64	(2)
It Takes Desire To Get to the Top	66	(3)
A View From the Top Made It Worth All the Trouble	69	(2)
Why People Fail Is Usually Not a Mystery	71	(6)
Guideline Number Two: Does This Person Understand The Importance of Communication?	77	(20)
Learning When To Be Quiet And When To Speak	80	(3)
Quick Assumptions Mean Poor Communication	83	(2)
It's Hard To Listen and Talk at the Same Time	85	(2)
Being a Good Communicator Is Just as Important as Being Anointed	87	(3)
Develop Your Own Communication Skills	90	(1)
Test the Candidate's Communication Skills	91	(6)
Guideline Number Three: What Kind of Home Life Does This Prospective Leader Have?	97	(54)
The Effect of a Leader's Home Life On His Public Life	99	(2)
People Want Leaders Who Demonstrate Their Message	101	(2)
People Need an Example To Follow	103	(2)
The Vital Example of a Good Home Life	105	(2)
An Example in the Basics	107	(5)
A Sour Marriage Can Affect Your Ministry	112	(7)
Good and Bad Marriages Are Usually Determined By Communication	119	(3)
Marriage Is Not a Leadership Requirement	122	(1)
When Considering a Married Person To Be a Part of Your Leadership Team	123	(2)
Children's Behavior Tells the Real Story About What Goes On Behind Closed Doors	125	(4)
What Age Category of Children Is Paul Talking About?	129	(2)
`In Subjection With All Gravity'	131	(4)
How Do the Candidate's Children Speak to People?	135	(6)
Would You Want To Live in the Candidate's Home Or Allow Him To Take Care of Your Home In Your Absence?	141	(3)
Do Your Potential Leaders Pay Their Bills?	144	(2)
Always Allow Room for Mercy	146	(5)
Guideline Number Four: How Does the Candidate Respond to Change?	151	(30)
Motivating People To Change	153	(1)
A Standard Must Be Established Between a Leader and His Team	154	(5)
Adjusting to Change as Newlyweds	159	(1)
What if You Have a Person Who Refuses To Accept Change?	160	(3)
A Non-Growing Church	163	(2)
Five Points To Ponder If a Church Shows No Growth	165	(5)
When God First Spoke to Our Hearts	170	(2)
Publishing My Books Required Many Changes in Our Ministry	172	(2)
Learning To Delegate Was a Big Change To My Style	174	(2)
Keep On Changing, Keep On Growing	176	(5)
Guideline Number Five: How Does the Prospective Leader Get Along With Other People?	181	(14)
An Angry Man Stirs Up Strife	182	(1)
Cast Out the Scorner, And Contention Shall Cease	183	(2)
What Should I Do?	185	(1)
Why Did I Endure This Situation for So Long?	186	(1)
One Disjointed Person Can Throw The Whole Team Into a State of Confusion	187	(2)
Ask These Questions Before Making a Final Decision	189	(6)
Guideline Number Six: How Does This Person You're Considering Respond to Correction?	195	(22)
A Difficult Experience With a Staff Member	196	(4)
Time Is a Great Revealer Of Who People Really Are	200	(2)
Sacrifices With Strife	202	(2)
Bringing Correction Is Hard To Do	204	(1)
Paul's Advice to Spiritual Leaders About How To Bring Correction	205	(1)
Don't Let Yourself Get Dragged Into a War of Words	206	(2)
Stay in Control of Yourself	208	(2)
Take Them to 'School'
And Show Them Where They're Wrong	210	(1)
Have a Tolerant Attitude	211	(2)
The Most Important Question	213	(4)
Guideline Number Seven: Has This Potential Leader Become Essential to You?	217	(36)
My Own Essential Leaders	219	(9)
Questions To Ask To Determine Someone's Value to an Organization	228	(2)
Ministry Is Work	230	(1)
Leadership Is Not Convenient	231	(4)
Leaders Must Understand That They're Part of a Team	235	(2)
Keep This in Perspective	237	(4)
Steadfast, Immovable, Always Abounding In the Work of the Lord	241	(3)
Steadfast and Immovable	244	(9)
Guideline Number Eight: If the Candidate Has Come From Another Church, Find Out Why	253	(16)
`Super-Spirituals' Are Often The Most Difficult People	255	(1)
Unstable People Are Unprofitable People	256	(2)
A Sure Sign of Spiritual Problems	258	(2)
Five Key Words To Remember When Testing Potential Leaders	260	(9)
Guideline Number Nine: Does the Prospective Leader Give Tithes and Offerings?	269	(6)
Money Tells the Truth!	270	(1)
Two Questions To Ask	271	(4)
Guideline Number Ten: Does This Potential Leader Have a Healthy Spiritual Life?	275
A Candidate's Private Spiritual Life Affects His Anointing for Ministry	276
Other Questions I Ask Potential Leaders	279
A Final Word	282