Outline Of Revising Priorities And Starting Afresh

Chapter 5: Renew Revising priorities and starting afresh â€Å"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.† – Abraham Lincoln â€Å"You cannot reach for anything new if your hands are full of yesterday’s junk.† – Louise Smith, Nascar driver Effectiveness in missions is not simply a matter of having a better technique—nor is it solely dependent on us having a smart, integrated strategy, even though that is essential. The ultimate and critical ingredient is our relationship with the Lord and our willingness to love Him with all our hearts, souls, minds and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves (Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27). Jesus also said, â€Å"If you love Me, keep My commands† (John 14:15). The question is where to start and how to get into that space where we can be most effective at discipling. We propose that many of us as individuals and also as a church need to go right back and start at bedrock. The Bible has some very graphic imagery for building our lives on a poor foundation. Older readers may recall singing a chorus about building a house on the sand and inviting ruin when the rain came down and the floods came up. The house built on the rock survived. Simple stuff, but full of truth. It comes from Matthew 7:24. The foundation for a fruitful, rewarding, and renewed, God-honoring life dedicated to missions includes getting our relationship on a clean, forgiven basis. David said in Psalm 51:10, â€Å"CreateShow MoreRelatedDeveloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 Pagesfor his work on the motivation chapter; Pat Seybolt and Troy Nielsen of the University of Utah for their work on the chapter on managing conflict; Cathy German of Miami University for her assistance in revising Supplement A, and John Tropman, University of Michigan, for taking the lead in revising Supplement C. Special thanks are also due to Susan Schor, Joseph Seltzer, and James Smither for writing the SSS Software In-Basket Exercise. Our long-time collaboration with Sue Campbell-Clark has beenRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagescollection provide the basis for fashioning a coherent, inclusive, and wide-ranging approach to teaching and thinking about the history of the long twentieth century. As that designation suggests, they surmount the problems involved in designating a starting point by including the last decades of the 1800s, which are critical for all of the key subjects and processes considered—from demographic and gender shifts to war, the rise and decline of the great powers, and environmental change. Each essayRead MoreQuality Improvement328284 Words   |  1314 Pagesaugment many of the chapters in the book. The supplemental material contains topics that could not easily fit into a chapter without seriously disrupting the flow. The topics are shown in the Table of Contents for the book and in the individual chapter outlines. Some of this material consists of proofs or derivations, new topics of a (sometimes) more advanced nature, supporting details concerning remarks or concepts presented in the text, and answers to frequently asked questions. The supplemental material