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Joseph Lalonde: Become a Beacon of Hope

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It’s so easy to confuse leadership with management. They overlap, certainly. But they don’t always happen together.

Management is essentially getting things done, getting people to do the right things, and making sure the job gets accomplished. It’s a good, worthy goal.

Leadership, on the other hand, includes some qualities much harder to quantify. Leadership often means giving hope.

Joseph Lalonde writes about this…

Getting things done and advancing is critical to being seen as a good leader. Leaders are people who move others to the next stage of life.

However, that’s not where leadership stops. And you’ll have challenges getting your people to that next stage if you’re missing something.

Leaders run into trouble when they fail to give people hope.

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You have to be the beacon of hope that shows them there’s still more to come.

Joseph talks about how to do this as well.

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Mark Carver: The 5 Levels of Learning

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Knowledge

We all tend to assume that learning is all about the collection of more facts and figures. But that’s just the first of five levels of learning. If you’re in business hoping to sell, or in ministry hoping to make disciples, or a teacher hoping to inspire students, you need to understand the five levels of learning.

The five levels of learning are developmental in nature, that is, each one builds on the other. Spiritual maturity begins with knowledge, but includes the presence of other building blocks.

  1. Knowledge…
  2. Perspective…
  3. Convictions…
  4. Skills…
  5. Character

In the full article, Mark Carver elaborates on each level of learning from the perspective of a ministry leader, but you’ll find wisdom to apply to any area of life.

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Malinda Fuller: Hustle, Rest, and the Real Example of Jesus

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Hustle Rest Jesus

Malinda Fuller wrote a piece over at Relevant that dives into the modern notion of hustling to succeed with who Jesus was in his context.

I’m not sure I agree entirely with Malinda’s concluding paragraphs. I think there’s a balance to be struck. It’s easy to cast Jesus as the meditative nomadic wanderer, but something about him drew Peter, James, John, and nine other rather driven and rough men to follow him.

Having said that, I do love how Malinda illustrates from Jesus’ life that he focused on serving people, on taking time to rest, and on understanding his unique role rather than trying to be someone else.

She makes a lot of good points, such as…

If Jesus were to live in today’s culture, it’s doubtful that He would don a #hustler t-shirt and strive for a million Instagram followers. He would more than likely be found sitting on the street corner and giving the homeless man His attention, a warm meal, and the shirt off His back. He would probably look less like the wanna-be social media celebrity hustling hard for people’s recognition and approval, and more like the woman who bakes bread for her ailing neighbor, or fosters children in obscurity.

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