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| At the urging of a friend of mine, I'm going to officially announce my move to Multiply. It's where I post anything and everything. So check it out...
miek321.multiply.com
Mike
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| Leadership is..... Leadership is one of those things
that isn't defined very well, yet
everyone knows what it is and what it looks like in a person. Most
dictionaries define leadership to be the act of being a leader but they
use more words to say it. That's just funny. People have told me
this summer that I've started walking in new leadership gifts. All I felt
like I've started to do is take responsibility for things. I've started
creating situations in which I'm taking most of the responsibility on
myself for that situation. That's all it is! That's what the
intangibles of leadership actually are. Volunteering when someone asks
isn't leadership, that followership. That's being a servant to that
person. Leadership is that moment when with out prompting of any kind,
you begin something new involving other people. That's the key thought,
it has to involve other people. You can't take on leadership in your own
life and call yourself a leader, that's just something you're expected
to do.
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| So I finially had to jump on the Xanga bandwagon...
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| I just realized something, anytime I get a word from Jesus, yes Jesus
not God, it's always in question form. God usually speaks in
declaritive statements, a word of prophecy spoken into some one. But
Jesus is different, his voice has a different flavor from God's. He's
more personal, he asks probing personal questions which make you
rexamine everything you thought. I got saved because of two questions he
asked me, they were two very a simple questions. "Why can't you follow me? Why
can't I be real?" And then a kind of challenge to "follow me and see what
happens." He challenged me to follow him in faith. He knows the perfect
question to ask you, and it will make you reconsider everything you had
thought up to that point. Jesus is just so awesome.
If he was to say to you that something was wrong with what you were
thinking or doing, you would dismiss it, ignore it and never listen to
it without a whole lot of show and pomp. Just look at how God works,
when he has something to say, he doesn't say it to you, but to someone
else who then says it to you. That's why there are prophets and people to discilpe you. But Jesus
works differently. He won't tell you anything, he'll just make you
reexamine your whole life or some aspect of it. And you'll change
because you'll realize you've been wrong. That's just amazing.
I don't know about you, but that how it works for me. I know the voice
of God, and I know the voice of Jesus. They're different, yet very
similar. The only reason I know the difference between the two is
becasue of that first night when I got saved. Only Jesus could have
asked me those questions. I had no problems with God, I already knew he
existed. I had problems with Jesus. I had problems with what he said,
if he was real, and why I should care anything about him. And only he
could have directly challenged those
ideas.
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| So I got this on my way to church yesterday...How much do you
love Christ? I mean that pretty much all Christianity is. I know that a
lot of the people reading this will already be at the point where
they've already accepted Christ into their hearts and are saying,
"sure, I love Christ" and "of course I love Christ." "I mean, I'm
saved, right?" And to most of you that are reading this, I'd say, yes you're
saved. Now here's where the problems begin. You're saved, and you love
Christ. Now this is where that first question I asked comes into play.
How much do you love Christ? Now I'm going to take a differnt angle on
this, because this is how it came to me. This is kinda how it was
placed on my heart.
FYI: This is going off from the fact that we (the church) are supposed to be the bride of Christ.
IF you love me, then why don't all your friends know about me? That
close friend you have that's unsaved? Why am I not in that
relationship? Why doesn't that friend about know me? You're supposed to
be my bride right? Then why don't all your friends know about your
relationship with me? Are you ashamed to know me? Why don't you talk
about me to your friends like you do that girlfriend or boyfriend you
used to have. Everyone knew you were dating them, but they don't know
that you're married to me?
This made me think, and I mean really think. In my relationships with
people, have I made Jesus a big part of them? I know how much me means
to me but do they? Have I tried to make them understand. I mean really
understand? And so that's convicted me my relationships withmy unsaved
friends. I'm going to talk about God and Jesus as much around them as
around my spiritual family.
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