How to Use Creativity to Increase Effectiveness
   Many pastors have given up on creativity, thinking it is a special gift for the talented few. Not true. Everyone has some creative power and it can be increased by using what you have. Besides, the Holy Spirit—creative agent without rival—is eager to help you find new ways to gain the Gospel a hearing! Consider these approaches:
   1. Look everywhere for ideas that will work in ministry. It was said of Peter Drucker that he saw connections between ideas in many fields that he used in management.
   2. Share a need or problem with a colleague—ask what they would do if they were you.
   3. Ask yourself what would happen if you turned existing practices upside down.
   4. Conventional practice should not be rejected just because it is conventional. New ideas should not be accepted just because they are new. Can the two be merged?
   5. Innovate by translating the new ideas of others into your unique setting. Many new ideas don ’t work because we don’t work them.
   6. Consider the unusual. With a bit of refinement, ideas that at first seem outlandish can provide ideal solutions.
   Creativity is not rocket science, it’s fitting ideas together in news ways. That's something we all can do!