Dealing With Criticism
Join us as we learn from pastor and author Craig Groeschel as he expounds on how to deal with criticism in a negative world. We finish reading Andy Stanley's book, "Deep and Wide."
Welcome to this edition of the Digital Leadership Development Newsletter!
Join us as we learn from pastor and author Craig Groeschel as he expounds on how to deal with criticism in a negative world. We finish reading Andy Stanley's book, "Deep and Wide." Enjoy!
Your Reading Assignment:
We are concluding in Andy Stanley's book, DEEP & WIDE.
For your next discussion session with your team or small group of friends, please reread the 7 questions listed on pages 302-304. Carefully consider the questions and write down some notes and observations about your own organization in response to the questions presented. It should make for a very interesting time of discussion.
About Your Leadership Coach:
Craig Groeschel (born December 2, 1967) is the founder and senior pastor of Life.Church, a church with locations in ten states. He is married to Amy and has six children and one grandchild. They live in Edmond, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, where Life.Church is based.
Groeschel grew up in southern Oklahoma, attending Ardmore High School. After high school, he attended Oklahoma City University on a tennis scholarship and was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and received a bachelor's degree in Marketing. Shortly thereafter, he met his wife Amy and the two married in 1991. That same year, Groeschel entered the ministry as an associate pastor in the United Methodist Church. He attended Phillips Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and earned a Master of Divinity degree. He was an associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City during the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing.
In 1996, Groeschel and a handful of people started Life Covenant Church in a two-car garage. He later told Business Week that he started the process by performing market research of non-churchgoers and designed his church in response to what he learned. Groeschel’s non-traditional style was successful and attendance of Life Covenant grew rapidly, eventually evolving to become (as of January 2019) the largest Protestant church in the United States with 32 Life.Church campuses. Groeschel began using video to deliver some of his sermons, when his fourth child was born in 2001, and he was unavailable for the Sunday service, discovering that the videos were popular with his churchgoers. In 2006, he set up a website called Mysecret.tv as a place for people to confess anonymously on the Internet. Groeschel also began delivering his services to the Second Life virtual world on Easter Sunday 2007.
Life.Church was named America’s Most Innovative Church by Outreach Magazine in 2007 and 2008. Life.Church innovations include its free resource library with sermons, transcripts, videos, artwork, and a digerati team that develops free software like ChurchOnlinePlatform.com and YouVersion the Bible app, which has been downloaded over 200 million times by December 2015.
According to Newsmax website, Life.Church is listed on the top 50 churches of America in 2015, with approximately 100,000 people attending weekly.
Discussion Questions to Consider As You Learn:
What are some key take-always or “aha,” moments for you from each of these resources?
What are some of the areas addressed that you have not really considered before?
What are some of the insights you are going to share with someone else this next week to help them on their journey at work?