Increase Capacity, pt3 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 212 SHOW NOTES Increasing your capacity is using your capacity to the fullest. 1. Convictions The edge of your leadership is built on convictions. Convictions override feelings. Convictions cause you to do things that you don’t feel like doing because they are the right thing to do. Convictions put something in you that sentence you to a certain lifestyle. Are there any convictions in your life that have go

SHOW NOTES Increase Capacity, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 211 Increased capacity is using the capacity you have—it’s that simple. 2 Timothy 4:13 When you come, bring the cloak which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, especially the parchments. Paul is in jail, waiting to be executed. There are 9 verses that follow, about 130 words, and then we never hear from him again. Winter is coming, so he asked that his coat be brought to him, some books,

SHOW NOTES Increase Capacity, pt1 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 210 Capacity is a buzz word in a lot of leadership circles. How do you increase your capacity? How do you use your capacity? Are you operating at your fullest capacity? Capacity is what you can take hold of, what you can handle. Over 15 years ago, I lived in the country in an old farm house that I had added onto. On that property, there was a building that I converted to a home that we used for m

SHOW NOTES Vision Considerations, pt3 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 209 Vision Ownership Vision ownership is the root of how you breed vision. Great vision bearers are not necessarily dynamic personalities, but they have a dynamic plan and invite people to go there with them. In vision ownership, you have to be saturated with the vision yourself. It has to get down inside of you. When I took over the leadership of NRP 2.5 years ago, our apostolic team laid ha

SHOW NOTES Vision Considerations, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 208 Vision Integration Integration means making things one. If things aren’t integrated, they aren’t speaking the same language. When integrated, everyone and every ministry is on the same page. The Church is described in Scripture as a body. We have many parts, and those parts are required to work together. When those parts work together, we have health. When those parts do not work together

SHOW NOTES Vision Considerations, pt1 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 207 One of the first huge mistakes people make in communicating vision is to overcomplicate it. The clearer, more obvious, easier it is to grasp, the better chance you have of your vision coming to pass. It is easier to increase a vision than it is to get somewhere and have to shrink vision. Vision used to never be talked about, and now it is talked about all the time. But sometimes when you

SHOW NOTES How to Endure, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 206 How do people you admire—in Scripture, in history, in your life—endure? What is the secret to endurance? It’s important to understand these things or we will fall into the trap of thinking that others can endure because they are wired a certain way or tougher than we are. There are things we can learn from others that can be replicated. We are all called to endurance. We are all called to finish

SHOW NOTES How to Endure, pt1 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 205 Endurance is a part of life. Endurance is a mark of a disciple, a follower of Jesus Christ. In 1 Peter, Peter is writing to people who are about to experience persecution. He is prophetically preparing them. 1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials... Peter is not saying that trials are pleasant or even t

SHOW NOTES Stewards of the Mystery, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 204 God wants to reveal the mystery of Christ to us. We ought to be gospel detectives that unveil the mystery of God. Matthew 13:10-11 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. The disciples are asking Jesus a question ab

SHOW NOTES Stewards of the Mystery, pt1 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 203 The word “mystery” appears 25 times in the New Testament. 21 of those times, it means the same thing and refers to the same thing. Twice in Revelation, the word “mystery” is ascribed to the great harlot. Once in Revelation it is ascribed to the churches. Once in 2nd Thessalonians, it’s ascribed to the mystery of lawlessness. There is a difference between a mystery and a secret. A secret

SHOW NOTES Pro-Life, pt3 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 202 There is a lot of screaming from the liberals declaring that they believe the science. Reality is, they believe the theory, not actual facts. There really is a definite science that is consistent with fetal development. Fetus is a Latin word that means little one. The word fetus is not an inhuman term, yet it has been made to mean that. Science says that the origin of something is that something. Does

SHOW NOTES Pro-Life, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 201 It is amazing to me to observe the liberals’ disconnect with history and lack of understanding of what Roe v. Wade is and was. Abortion did not start in America when Roe v. Wade law was made in the Supreme Court in 1973. There were 7 states that completely outlawed abortion before 1973. There were about 6 states that had no restriction on abortion—which is what Roe v. Wade did. What Roe v. Wade did wa

SHOW NOTES Pro-Life, pt1 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 200 There is a great controversy brewing in our country right now over abortion. This controversy is great and important because unborn children need all the publicity they can possibly get. On Friday, June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned. In response to that, I’m starting a new series on why this is so critical and crucial. Over the next few weeks, I’ll focus on the Bible, science, the law, and hist

SHOW NOTES The Art of the Meeting, pt3 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 199 When drilling for water, they know whether they are close or not based on the deposits of soil on the drill bit. If you stay in contact with all the different soils in your church, you will hit water every time. As a leader of a growing church, you have to spend a lot of your meeting time with your top leaders. Leaders, not opinion givers. People who gather people, motivate them, move pe

SHOW NOTES The Art of the Meeting, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 198 Setting the atmosphere for your meetings—the physical atmosphere as well as the atmosphere that is created through communication before, during, and after your meeting—is almost just as important as the content of the meeting. Atmosphere does have something to do with the ability of people to receive. The cleanliness, the comfortability, the temperature, the chairs, the lighting, the sou

SHOW NOTES The Art of the Meeting, pt1 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 197 Today we reached far back in the archives to bring back the very first series we did on Leadership in Context—The Art of the Meeting. I have found that there is a systematic weakness in regularly scheduled leadership meetings in many churches. That weakness is directly correlated to the lack of first level disciples. Bible experts suggest that Jesus spent 73% of His time with small group

SHOW NOTES What the Church Does, pt3 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 196 The Church has an upward relationship with God, an inward relationship with the members of the body of Christ, and an outward relationship with the world. You don’t wait until one is perfect to do the next, but you do have to be legitimately pursuing excellence in one to go to the next. The sequence of upward, inward, and outward is biblical. We worship God (upward), we “one another'' each

SHOW NOTES BONUS Episode: Update from Ukraine Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 195 Keith Tucci interviews Pastor Mervin Strother on their experience in Ukraine. While there, they took a 17-hour van trip deep into Ukraine. They went to Kharkiv, which had recently been attacked, to distribute food. They saw destruction. The ground was shaking because bombs were going off about 5 miles away. But they also saw a church that was alive, a church full of joy, a church

SHOW NOTES What the Church Does, pt2 Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 194 The Church operates in three dimensions: Upward—worship Inward—body life, fellowship Outward—evangelism, the Great Commission Our first responsibility, our first privilege as believers, is to worship God. If you take away our freedom, luxuries, and abilities, we still would be able to worship. The second part is inward—what we are as the Church. When you read the New Testament and divide a

SHOW NOTES Divine Compassion for Ukraine Leadership in Context with Keith Tucci Episode 193 (When this episode releases, I will be in Ukraine meeting with key leaders, looking at our operations, and trying to hear the Lord on our next steps.) As I was thinking about the whole Ukraine situation, I realized there are some spiritual lessons we can learn. Someone asked me recently why I got so involved. Obviously, there is a great need. But there are great needs in other situatio