How to Work With a Mentor
We need to be good at something before we ask someone to help us be great at something.
We need to be good at something before we ask someone to help us be great at something.
At times, the lack of coherence between younger and older voices in organizations can seem daunting. Healthy Leadership Transitions can help pace and guide ministries through purposeful change.
Contrary to popular belief, multigenerational mentoring is not solely about imparting knowledge but about sharing wisdom gleaned from lived experiences.
Don’t lean only on a spiritual gifts inventory. No inventory is enough to help us know how God wants to use us. It’s only one tool among many others to determine God’s will.
Millions of people around the world were impacted by Dr. Stanley and learned from him over the course of his 60-plus years of ministry. We learned through his preaching and teaching of Charles Stanley leadership lessons.
While increasingly accepted and encouraged in the business world, I wish it was happening more in church world. Instead, I find many pastors and church leaders threatened by younger generations, often resulting in keeping them from pivotal leadership roles and opportunities of influence.
As Jesus sat at the table of Zacchaeus, he, too, saw past the sinful nature. Instead, he saw a man in need. Put yourself in Zacchaeus' position, and then Jesus’.
We learn more through relationship than we ever do in the classroom.