I've been working to develop a seminar for church management, found these tips, we can all use, even in everyday relationships (just substitute co-worker or friend in place of workers);
"Protect, back up and defend your workers."
"Listen twice as much as you speak."
"Do not always seek to find bad behavior to punish, but also seek good behavior to reward."
"Promote within."
"Encourage a work environment that is conducive to success."
"Allow for failure." -- Michael Coritsidis
Most people do not understand the value of allowing for failue. The Olympian becomes great having tried and failed thousands of times; if we say there is no room for failure, then there is no room for improvement and we must settle for mediocre at best.John Maxwell teaches a principal of falling forward. If we are going to fall (and we all are) then we should fall attempting to reach a goal; it is better to fail reaching high than to fail by refusing to reach. You've heard it said, no doubt that the greatest homerun hitters in history are also the same men who have struckout the greatest number of times. We may maintain, but we can never exceed until we are willing to fail in the process. Human Acheivement is rapt with examples of how perserverance rewards those who are not afraid to fail, even repeatedly in order to achieve what has never before been achieved. In order to have exceptional success whether in relationship or business, we must allow the other guy room to grow, which in the short run is room to fail.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
PUT ON CHRIST
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ROMANS 13:13-14 “BECAUSE WE BELONG TO THE DAY, WE MUST LIVE DECENT LIVES FOR ALL TO SEE. DON’T PARTICIPATE IN THE DARKNESS OF WILD PARTIES AND DRUNKENESS, OR IN SEXUAL PROMISCUITY AND IMMORAL LIVING, OR IN QUARRELING AND JEALOUSY. INSTEAD, CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND DON’T LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT WAYS TO INDULGE YOUR EVIL DESIRES.”
We live in a darkened age where temptation abounds. Like the waves of the ocean, which encompasses land on every side, wave after wave of temptation beats against the shores of our lives, erodes the shoreline of our moral selves, while wild parties, drunkenness, sexual promiscuity and immoral living, quarreling and jealousy are the norm, all fragments which comprise the darkness which rolls in like fog upon us, we are called to be the Light, even as He, Christ Jesus is the Light. Jesus said, “YOU now are the light of the world”.
The command is clear; because you are the day, do not participate in such darkened living, rather, CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND DON’T LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT WAYS TO INDULGE YOUR EVIL DESIRES.”
Notice the Apostle does not say that you will not have evil desires; too many Christians want to believe they are beyond the temptations of sin and while they may not indulge in drunkenness or sexual immorality or sexual promiscuity they love to quarrel and indulge in petty jealousies. They take pleasure in causing controversies and delving into drama; confusion hangs on them like a cloak, wherever they go there is disruption and debate.
There is instruction though; “CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND DON’T LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT WAYS TO INDULGE YOUR EVIL DESIRES.” The old hymn says, “Take Time To Be Holy”; daily take the time to enter into your prayer closet and put on the presence of Christ. Before you step out into the darkened world, you must put on your armor of light. Allow yourself to be covered with the protection of Christ from your feet firm on the truth of the Word of God to the helmet which protects your mind from devising or surrendering to evil thinking; devising ways to satisfy your evil desires.
TODAY; “BECAUSE WE BELONG TO THE DAY, WE MUST LIVE DECENT LIVES FOR ALL TO SEE. DON’T PARTICIPATE IN THE DARKNESS OF WILD PARTIES AND DRUNKENESS, OR IN SEXUAL PROMISCUITY AND IMMORAL LIVING, OR IN QUARRELING AND JEALOUSY. INSTEAD, CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND DON’T LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT WAYS TO INDULGE YOUR EVIL DESIRES.” AMEN.
ROMANS 13:13-14 “BECAUSE WE BELONG TO THE DAY, WE MUST LIVE DECENT LIVES FOR ALL TO SEE. DON’T PARTICIPATE IN THE DARKNESS OF WILD PARTIES AND DRUNKENESS, OR IN SEXUAL PROMISCUITY AND IMMORAL LIVING, OR IN QUARRELING AND JEALOUSY. INSTEAD, CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND DON’T LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT WAYS TO INDULGE YOUR EVIL DESIRES.”
We live in a darkened age where temptation abounds. Like the waves of the ocean, which encompasses land on every side, wave after wave of temptation beats against the shores of our lives, erodes the shoreline of our moral selves, while wild parties, drunkenness, sexual promiscuity and immoral living, quarreling and jealousy are the norm, all fragments which comprise the darkness which rolls in like fog upon us, we are called to be the Light, even as He, Christ Jesus is the Light. Jesus said, “YOU now are the light of the world”.
The command is clear; because you are the day, do not participate in such darkened living, rather, CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND DON’T LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT WAYS TO INDULGE YOUR EVIL DESIRES.”
Notice the Apostle does not say that you will not have evil desires; too many Christians want to believe they are beyond the temptations of sin and while they may not indulge in drunkenness or sexual immorality or sexual promiscuity they love to quarrel and indulge in petty jealousies. They take pleasure in causing controversies and delving into drama; confusion hangs on them like a cloak, wherever they go there is disruption and debate.
There is instruction though; “CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND DON’T LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT WAYS TO INDULGE YOUR EVIL DESIRES.” The old hymn says, “Take Time To Be Holy”; daily take the time to enter into your prayer closet and put on the presence of Christ. Before you step out into the darkened world, you must put on your armor of light. Allow yourself to be covered with the protection of Christ from your feet firm on the truth of the Word of God to the helmet which protects your mind from devising or surrendering to evil thinking; devising ways to satisfy your evil desires.
TODAY; “BECAUSE WE BELONG TO THE DAY, WE MUST LIVE DECENT LIVES FOR ALL TO SEE. DON’T PARTICIPATE IN THE DARKNESS OF WILD PARTIES AND DRUNKENESS, OR IN SEXUAL PROMISCUITY AND IMMORAL LIVING, OR IN QUARRELING AND JEALOUSY. INSTEAD, CLOTHE YOURSELF WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. AND DON’T LET YOURSELF THINK ABOUT WAYS TO INDULGE YOUR EVIL DESIRES.” AMEN.
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