One Prayer Interview - Marty Grubbs
I’ve been friends with Marty for a long time. He’s a true man of God. He pastors Crossings Community Church in Oklahoma City. He writes…
1. What is the biggest leadership lesson you’ve learned over the past year?
The biggest leadership lesson I’ve learned is to do whatever you do with excellence, and if you can’t do it with excellence, don’t do it at all. It may mean you delay doing it until you can do it with excellence, or it may mean you never do it because it is not in your DNA to do it well. But don’t do something you cannot do well. No matter your age, your demographic, your skill set, your audience, etc. do whatever it is that you do with excellence.
2. What is God showing you personally?
God is showing me personally that he can use me at every stage and season of life. I can’t look back, and it is not for me to look forward. He knows the future. Looking back is good only if I learn something. God is showing me that he can use me today if I will trust him, if I will do what he has equipped me to do with excellence, and if I will refuse to compare myself to others. I don’t have to look like someone else, sound like someone else, do what someone else does. I am to do what God has called me to do wherever He has called me to do it as well as I can do it.
3. What is the top ministry challenge you’re currently facing?
My top ministry challenge is to prepare my congregation for a future when I will not be their leader. That day will come, even though I don’t know when, and I hope not soon. But it will come. My church must be effective long after I am no longer its leader. That means I must broaden the base of influence in the leadership both on staff and in volunteer leadership on a continual basis. It requires leaders who value where the church has been, where it is, but also see where it can go. I have to embrace changes that I may not appreciate or understand. That is challenging but necessary if this church is to have staying power beyond my own tenure.
4. What do you do for fun?
I try to take two days a week where I don’t go to the office, where I spend time at home with my wife and kids, hang with friends, leave town, ride the bike, work in the yard, head to the west coast to see family or Colorado to decompress. It’s important to spend a few days every month away from the office and preferably away from town to read, think, study, in order to stay fresh and able to effectively communicate to the church.
5. What books are you reading?
I’m currently reading “Wide Awake” by Erwin McManus and “9 Things You Simply Must Do” by Dr. Henry Cloud.
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Wow, great lessons. Number 3 is crucial, not only if you lead a church, but wherever you are called to lead, you should make sure those whom you lead are prepared to march on without you.