The men's ministry of LifeStream Christian Church will be going over the book, What God Does When Men Lead. So being one of the leaders of the ministry I had to read the book ahead of time AND I had to have it read by this morning... so I did some power reading and I am done.
A very good book, some of it really hit home to me. I'll share more about it as we go through it in detail as a group, but the overall concept of the book is that the lack of male leadership has hurt our world significantly.
A few excerpts from the book that I liked:
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
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Unlike gifts, which God permanently bestows but which need development, passions arise at what might seem like arbitrary times in our lives.
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If a brother has a legitimate immediate need and I have the means to meet that need, then I have an obligation to help him on a short-term basis. I don't need to pray about it or seek God's will about it; I just need to obey and do it.
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Notice that it is not just the father's presence in the home but the quality of the father's involvement and leadership that makes the difference.
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Statistics regarding the father's spiritual influence on children are compelling. When a mother trusts Christ apart from her husband, her family follows 17 percent of the time. When Dad becomes a Christian, the rest of the family follows 93 percent of the time.
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For many guys, church falls into the same category as attending a chick flick with your wife.
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That last comment is HARSH... but soooo true.