LIVE AND HELP LIVE To live and let live is good. To live and help live is better. From System Forms Brochure, December, 1988
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THE SUPERVISOR'S PRAYER "Lord, when I am wrong, make me willing to change; when I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed…
ACTION BEFORE EMOTION In relationship of feelings to behavior: "You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action." From In Search of Excellence, Peters and Waterman, pg. 73
THE TASK OF CHURCH LEADERSHIP The task of the leaders in the church, then, is not to run the church, but to determine how the Lord as Head wishes the church to proceed. They are…
AN ARMY OF LAY LEADERS The paralysis of the clergy would not be as evident if we had a substantial army of capable lay leaders pushing the Church forward. Unfortunately, we do not have such…
ACCEPTED IN HEAVEN G. Campbell Morgan was one of 150 young men who sought entrance to the Wesleyan ministry in 1888. He passed the doctrinal examination, but then faced the trial sermon. In a cavernous…
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A BUM Gordon McDonald, writing in The Effective Father, said that a 42-year-old man allowed him to look into his life and see what made him what he is today: A…
PEOPLE WANT A LEADER People don't want to be managed. They want to be led. Whoever heard of a world manager? World leader, yes. Educational leader. Political leader. Religious leader. Scout leader. Community leader. Labor…
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PARADOXES OF A MAN OF GOD Strong enough to be weak; Successful enough to fail; Busy enough to take time; Wise enough to say, "I don't know"; Serious enough to laugh; Rich enough to be…
TRUMAN ON PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.…
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED When Khrushchev pronounced his famous denunciation of Stalin, someone in the Congress Hall is reported to have said, "Where were you, Comrade Khrushchev, when all these innocent people were being…
DOCTOR IMMINENCE On the first day of graduate school at a Christian university, the instructor was introduced to the students as "Doctor." The head of the school made many references to "Dr. Smith has done…
MAKE UP YOUR MIND "Double-minded" means to look both ways at the same time. You are indecisive and lack conviction. Your favorite color is plaid. You speak in footnotes, not confident enough to claim an…
LOOKING BEYOND OURSELVES James Michener, in an address to the students of Macalester College some years ago, told them: "Specializing is not enough; what the world needs for the big jobs - historically, culturally, morally…
FIRE ESCAPE ARTIST A young man was being interviewed for a job as usher at a movie theater. The manager of the theater asked him what he would do in case of a fire. "Aw,…
MALE FOLLOWERSHIP There was a line of men standing in front of the Pearly Gates, waiting to get in. A sign overhead read: "FOR MEN WHO HAVE BEEN DOMINATED ALL THEIR LIVES BY THEIR WIVES."…
BORDEN'S SUCCESS In the 1820s, Gail Borden, Jr. was a journalist in the Texas territory who coined the phrase, "Remember the Alamo." But his real ambition was to invent a way to condense food so…
MCDONALD'S MANAGEMENT Good management increases the number of people a church can reach. The breadth and depth of an organization's work depends on how it's managed. McDonald's is a prime example. The original founders, the…
IMPERFECT GOVERNMENT Concerning John Tower's failed nomination as the nation's secretary of defense, former Senator Barry Goldwater said: "If they chased every man or woman out of this town who'd hacked up with somebody else,…
BLOODY SUNDAY MARTYRESS Bloody Sunday, a video commentary smuggled out of Lithuania, at great risk, vividly records the events of Sunday, January 13, 1991. On that fateful Sunday, Soviet troops murdered, wounded, and beat the…
