As a follow up to last week’s post on the difference between owners and hired hands, today’s post is going to shift gears, for a moment. But before reading further, you need to read this post. Jesus was the ultimate example of an owner teaching hired hands to become owners. …
Communicating Expectations Well
One of the things I have most enjoyed about blogging over the past year has been the lessons I have learned and processed through my writing. Almost a year ago, I broke an unwritten rule I have about not writing about an idea or topic that recently took place when …
6 Tips to Implement the 3 Questions
Let’s zoom in on local church ministry today. How can you use the 3 questions to help develop student leaders? (Not sure what the 3 Questions are? Click here to read more.) Teach them to ask the 3 questions. Make the 3 questions part of your language. Repeat each question …
You Can Make a Difference
In group settings, I usually tend to be a listener first. I remember taking a senior level class in college with about 12 people. Somewhere around 7 weeks into the class I was talking in the hallway with someone else in the class and mentioned a concept we talked about. …
Teaching Others To Dive Into Influence
Teaching student leaders to answer the 3 questions has been quite a journey. I knew up front I would learn from the process, but never guessed the breadth and depth of what I would stumble across. One learning, perhaps the most significant to date, is the difficulty of the first …