Meeting With The Leaders
Two persons in their 40s asked me why I did not update my blog recently. I thought that blog would attract younger crowd but it seems that many of our older friends are rather e-connected as well!
This evening, we had our meeting with the leaders from various congregations. We had a really fun and spiritually enriching time. We started with dinner and then Alan shared a wonderful testimony on how he served fresh manna (fresh spiritual insights from the bible) and do holistic ministry with his gang. I am truly amazed at how Alan had become a soccer fanatic since World Cup. Alan had done this to better connect with the guys and he is really enjoying soccer in all its glory! He said that after 30 years on planet earth, he had finally understood why soccer is called "the beautiful game".
After that, I shared some thoughts on how to build strong values into our groups. Basically, we need to model from our lifestyle, teach from the biblical perspective and have creative and consistent reminders in various forms.
I shared about how leaders need to take the responsibility to impart values. As leaders, we may be able to teach what we know but do not necessarily possess in our lives; but we cannot impart what we do not first have in our lives. To impart faith, we must first have faith. To impart the spirit of servanthood, we have firstly be servants ourselves.
We also went through a listing of the saying in Hope. Below is a listing of these values and sayings…
• pour a bucket of blood to inspire a drop
• its not what you expect, its what you inspect
• always give the benefit of the doubt
• economize to evangelize
• the window model
• the sandwich model
• never do something that other can do; do something that no one else can do such that together, we will do more for the Kingdom
• Kingdom Mentality
• willingness is key
• availability over ability
• character is key when choosing leader
• we believe God so much that’s why we work so hard
• we emphasize everything according to the weight-age of the bible
• we can have quantity without quality but when we have quality, we will have quantity.
• serve God as if no one else is doing it
• Jesus #1, Others #2, I #3
• it's normal to grow
• love God, love people
• do all that is humanly possible leaving the impossible to God
• 99% of the people will not do anything until they are being challenged to
• major on the major and minor on the minor
• accounting versus informing
As I shared these values and sayings, many of the leaders were able to complete these statements and taglines when I only mentioned part of them. All of us were challenged to live out these familiar values and to pass it on to the future generations of leaders.
Let’s build our church even stronger together!
This evening, we had our meeting with the leaders from various congregations. We had a really fun and spiritually enriching time. We started with dinner and then Alan shared a wonderful testimony on how he served fresh manna (fresh spiritual insights from the bible) and do holistic ministry with his gang. I am truly amazed at how Alan had become a soccer fanatic since World Cup. Alan had done this to better connect with the guys and he is really enjoying soccer in all its glory! He said that after 30 years on planet earth, he had finally understood why soccer is called "the beautiful game".
After that, I shared some thoughts on how to build strong values into our groups. Basically, we need to model from our lifestyle, teach from the biblical perspective and have creative and consistent reminders in various forms.
I shared about how leaders need to take the responsibility to impart values. As leaders, we may be able to teach what we know but do not necessarily possess in our lives; but we cannot impart what we do not first have in our lives. To impart faith, we must first have faith. To impart the spirit of servanthood, we have firstly be servants ourselves.
We also went through a listing of the saying in Hope. Below is a listing of these values and sayings…
• pour a bucket of blood to inspire a drop
• its not what you expect, its what you inspect
• always give the benefit of the doubt
• economize to evangelize
• the window model
• the sandwich model
• never do something that other can do; do something that no one else can do such that together, we will do more for the Kingdom
• Kingdom Mentality
• willingness is key
• availability over ability
• character is key when choosing leader
• we believe God so much that’s why we work so hard
• we emphasize everything according to the weight-age of the bible
• we can have quantity without quality but when we have quality, we will have quantity.
• serve God as if no one else is doing it
• Jesus #1, Others #2, I #3
• it's normal to grow
• love God, love people
• do all that is humanly possible leaving the impossible to God
• 99% of the people will not do anything until they are being challenged to
• major on the major and minor on the minor
• accounting versus informing
As I shared these values and sayings, many of the leaders were able to complete these statements and taglines when I only mentioned part of them. All of us were challenged to live out these familiar values and to pass it on to the future generations of leaders.
Let’s build our church even stronger together!
posted by Jeff Chong at 1:20 am
5 Comments:
enjoyed the time and the lesson. may God keep spurring us on.
psss... now that Alan is in, just thinking how we can convert Alan from Bayern Munich to Man Utd ? Any ideas?
haha HT... glad that you enjoyed the lesson. I want to end this race well too. Let me pray about how we can convert Alan... :)
What is the Window Model & Sandwich Model?
Hey Soo Guan, Window model is a 4 step process for discipleship. For example, if i were to train you to play guitar, the 1st step is for me to do (or to play) while you see (or to observe). Then the 2nd step is that I do and you do (we each take some parts of the guitar playing). Then the 3rd part is for you to do and I see (I watch and evaluate you). Then the last part is for you to do and some one else to see. The cycle goes on to train another person.
Sandwich is 3 layers: meat bewteen two slices of bread. The bread is like affirming while meat is correction. We affirm, then we correct and then we affirm to conclude.
Hope this helps. Do talk to me in person or to any of your leader about it. They should be able to tell you even more...
you can check out plenty of soccer news on the sun online - soccer fan
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