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start using Brave Communication at our Church and the results have been phenomenal! Can you briefly describe your take on what Brave Communication is and the value it brings to Churches seeking to improve how they communicate?
BANNING: This one is huge. I can’ t recommend this enough because almost all breakdowns on teams are relational. More than any other area it’ s what sinks ships. People and leaders weren’ t ever really taught how to communicate without controlling, or how to deal with confrontation in a way that results in connection. We have a view that in communication there is someone who is right and someone who is wrong, there is someone who is powerful and someone who is powerless. But that’ s not true. Learning how to grow in areas of communication is the key to creating a healthy relational environment. A healthy environment and healthy teams make the greatest impact and sustain that impact over the long term.
WM: You guys cancelled evening Church on the night of the Super Bowl. To me, it seemed like a really relational way of saying to people that we know- and value- that there is life outside of Church. What did it mean to you?
BANNING: Just that. The reality is the Super Bowl is a national holiday. It’ s a time where you
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BANNING: We are never under-resourced. It doesn’ t work like that in the Kingdom. First of all
God Himself lives within us and has made His power available to us. So we need to get better
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have written and contributed to a number of books including your latest title“ Rooted”. I love the following quote from the book,“ We‘ ll never thrive in the process unless we accept the place where God has put us, because that is the only place He will work with us. Faithfulness and obedience call us to recognize what God is asking us to put our hands to and what He is emphasizing in our
The church’ s job is to build people. You may not have a lot of money, but there are people God has put in front of you to develop and equip. greatest resources. The church’ s job is to build people. You may not have a lot of money, but there are people God has put in front of you to develop and equip. Also, it takes time to see the vision in your heart happen. Sometimes we think we need more resources when we just need to be faithful with what we have and it will increase. And what we have is what is needed to be obedient to what God has asked us to do in that season. lives.” It is clear that you are missional about Many times we are frustrated because we don’ t being where God puts you. What advice do recognize the season we are in. So we think you have for people in smaller congregations we need a certain thing because we think we who feel under-resourced, are working on what are in this season, but when we recognize the God has in front of them, but sometimes get season we are in and what God is asking of us overwhelmed in the size of God’ s vision for we realize we have what we need. And if it’ s not them as well as the weight of leading people to there yet, God will get it to us in time. it and through it?
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