We can’t live apprehensively! – Justin Boyd
He might have just gotten an 18 on his ACT, but this stuff is profound from my boy Justin Boyd.
A BOYd’s LIFE: WE CAN’T LIVE APPREHENSIVELY
WE CAN’T LIVE APPREHENSIVELY
Pursuing Jesus requires instinctive and intuitive actions and reactions. We don’t have time to be apprehensive when it comes to chasing Jesus dreams, nor does God want us to hesitate when he has called us to encounter the unknown. The reality is we are taught our whole lives to be careful and cautious in making decisions that may have a major impact on our lives. Jesus gave no time for logical thinking when he called people to uncomfortably engage his teaching and embrace his lifestyle.
We should trust our instinctive and intuitive jabs relying that the Spirit’s logic trumps our finite reasoning any time. Let’s not allow the uncharted and unexamined exclude us from the destination God may have for the illogical pursuers…
Keys to Reaching the Next Generation – Top Four
CFCC’s Brad Abare and Phil Cooke were interviewed for an hour by Conversant Life.
The best part of the interview can be summarized by their Top Four Keys to Reaching the Next Generation for Jesus Christ. It’s not an exhaustive list, and they were answering questions on the fly, but like most leaders in the church they were already thinking about these things and I felt like these four things were spot on.
Keys to Reaching the Next Generation
- Vision + Culture = You must have a vision and you need to create a culture of transformation within your church. (I don’t know of another church who has done this better than Quest)
- Monologue →Dialogue: We need to move from Monologue to Dialogue in how we interact with the congregation in all of our gatherings (YouVersion)
- Lions and Tigers and BEARS…Instead of passing on our faith, the torch, responsibilities we need to carry it (bear it) with them. Mentoring will be essential.
- T r a n s p a r e n c y – In the internet age there is no hiding what you own, buy, sell, or do so don’t try to hide. Leaders must be comfortable with sharing their personal struggles. (Just ask Tiger Woods)
The Key to Shorter, Better Meetings by Anthony Tjan
The Key to Shorter, Better Meetings – Anthony Tjan – HarvardBusiness.org
Anthony Tjan Upstarts and Titans
The Key to Shorter, Better Meetings1:04 PM Tuesday June 23, 2009
Tags:Organizational culture, Personal effectiveness, Time management
Here is a simple managerial tip for meeting effectiveness that I learned some years ago.
Outside of general relationship building, consider that there are only three functional purposes for having a business meeting:
1. To inform and bring people up to speed.
2. To seek input from people.
3. To ask for approval.Use this as a filter to determine why you are having a meeting and explain that purpose to your audience. Your meetings may often cut across multiple objectives but forcing yourself to clarify the agenda into these three purposes can result in more effective meetings.
Consider a meeting that sets its agenda goals along the lines of: “I want to bring you up to speed on these two things; I need input on this item; and finally I would like to seek your approval on these outstanding issues.” That’s it — a simple 3 purpose meeting rule that frames the goals of the meeting from the perspective of the meeting participant.
If you haven’t figured it out, the purpose of this blog was twofold: to inform you on this framework and seek your input on it. What do you think?
