7 Reasons why You as a Preacher Need a Website

1. A website is your online id and gives your ministry credability
2. A website is your hub. Facebook or Google + should be your airport. Take friends home with you!
3. A website is where you can store and access all your blog posts and make them easily findable to those who want to know more about your ministry. Not always possible with the social networks
4. A website allows you to use a domain name that is unique to you. Your real name or ministry name. This builds trust!
5. A website allows you to give easy access to podcasts, video, FAQ, your tweets, store/shop, contact page, and more. Each one of these can be made available on selected pages with their RSS feeds.
6.  A website can be visited without the distraction that you will find on a social network. Your posts are more likely to get read and of course your readers will read your quality work rather than stuff which no one is interested in like, I'm having coffee today at ? etc.
7. A place where you can develop your "permission marketing" project. Giving you access to partners and friends who will support your ministry and follow you online.

If you are a preacher and need a website, contact me Paul Thomas on Google+

Preachers Have to be Owners

Owners occupiers.
You have to own a thing before you can be the master of a thing.
Go in and possess the land ( Joshua 1:11).
Every man had a field he had to own.
Own your field, your own portion.
Every man has a field. If you're not the owner you will be the slave.
If you don't be the owner of your business you will become its employee.
If you don't become the owner of your time you will become a victim of the moment.
If you don't own your home you'll be its tenant.
If you don't own your book you'll become topic in another.
Ownership is mastery, ownership is leadership. Master your trade become the leader in your field.
Own your work.
Own your destiny.
Own your field, produce from it!

The Preachers Checklist

1. Is the great commission your priority. Are you reaching the Crowds?
2. Do you shrink back from ministering to the bound and demon possessed?
3. Are the gifts of the Holy Ghost evidenced in your ministry each time you preach?
4. Have you discovered that signs and wonders no longer follow the preaching of God's word?
5. Are you daily growing in the knowledge of God?
6. Is the book of Acts your pattern of ministry?
7. Do you draw back from persecution because you seek to be politically correct?
8. Do you often feel a failure in ministry?
9. Do you preach fulltime when God has called you full time?
10. Do you avoid subjects that are unpopular or controversial?
11. Do folks come to the altar and prayer through till they get the Holy Ghost
12. Do you love all people or just those in your social denomination?

If so read this Blog on Apostolic Preachers... or join me on Google + and meet great preachers

10 Social Goals For Preachers

1. Don't just get friends build customer evangelists
2. Know how to turn visitors into content promoters
3. Add value by providing solutions to others
4. Visit their blog then in turn they will visit yours
5. Write often you maybe known offline but does your online audience know you?
6. Educate them about yourself. Tell them your story! Everyone loves a story
7. Solve their problems first by providing great content that they value and can use
8. It's not enough to be known as a preacher or as a great speaker we must professionally network for all our life is worth.
9. Connect and respond to comments. This shows you value peoples time and are approachable.
10. Networking means making the net-work for you

We are missing the greatest opportunity ever when we fail to engage a global audience online. I believe the proof of great ministry is evidenced by what a man does online for there we have the biggest audience and the most accessable crowd.

Paul

10 Skill-sets of An Apostolic Pastor

1. Communication Skills: to communicate with feeling as well as preach and be exciting
2. Counselling Skills; To give sound counsell to a varied audience with multiplicity of life problems
3. Networking Skills; To network beyond denominational boundaries with your own assignment
4. Management Skills: To manage managers and mangage time, ministry, family and community, simultaneously and efficiantly
5. Online Skills: To master media, social networking, marketing and global socialising in order to preach to everybody what just a few years ago could only be known to the few
6. Career Skills: Ministry is a career, that has to navigate several environments in a lifetime. Todays preachers known how to navigate the chaNges and adjust accordingly
7. Study Skills: to study systematically, and doctrinally areas that are controversial in order to regain truth that has been hidden, so that we can rebuilt foundations that have been destroyed.
8. Global Skills: Todays preacher is global! Connecting to a global audience requires knowledge of global cultures, values and working practices
9. Media Skills: To master social media. If youre online you're a social media preacher. Knowing media trends and understanding how to use it will put you ahead of the crowd with your message.
10. Leadership Skills: To raise up a skillful five fold ministry (Ephesians 4:11,12)