EP 160 BEING VS. DOING
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This EP found our guys reminiscing about Ian, the recent Hurricane that hit the Florida Gulf Coast. Please remember to pray for our friends in FL and for the churches doing ministry there and for the Relief efforts continuing to take place.
In this important EP, the guys begin discussing the differences between “being” and “doing.” These insights come from Craig Hamilton’s work, Wisdom in Leadership. Hamilton says we can make two primary mistakes when thinking about this relationship between who God wants us to be and what God wants us to do.
1. SEPARATE – To see the two areas as being so separate that they have little or nothing to do with each other
2. OVERLAP – To see who we are and what we do as completely overlapping or even as being the same thing
“At either extreme we risk damaging both our ministries and our hearts.”
The guys offer some insights per Hamilton’s work as they wrap up the discussion:
DOING AND BEING
- “It’s not that who you are and what you do are completely unrelated and separate, because they are related. What you do flows out of who you are. What God does through you is based on, and caused by, what God has done and is doing in you.”
See Luke 10:19-20
“Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
- “Do not find your ultimate joy and worth in the success of what God has sent you to do, instead rejoice in what God has made you to be, a child of the kingdom.”
- Ask your self: “Do you tend towards too much separation or too much overlap?
- In the end Satan doesn’t care which side of the boat you jump out of so long as you jump out.”
- “God has called you to be a disciple, with other disciples, to go and make disciples. What God does through you flows from what God does in you. And what God does in you flows from what God has already done for you.”
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Wisdom in Leadership by Craig Hamilton
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