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Greg M, Patrick Lai, and guest bloggers write about the joys, challenges, and rewards that come with taking the Gospel to the least reached through real business.
ACCOUNTABILITY 101
Every man is as lazy as he dares to be. -Emerson Emerson had it right. People do not do what is expected; we do what is inspected. Phil Parshall, after forty years of serving among Muslims, said to me, “I have my doubts about tentmaking ... most tentmakers I know...
ACCOUNTABILTY – A GAME CHANGER
John Piper writes: For much of my Christian life I have had a one-sided view of “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15). I assumed that the verse meant only that when hard news or rebuke needed to be brought, it should be done with tenderness and sensitivity. I...
REALITY CHECK
I was leading a board meeting of an organization I was a part of. We had a guest from another very large mission agency attending our meetings. This man was the #2, right hand man of the international director of that agency. He oversaw hundreds of workers on two...
ACCOUNTABILITY YIELDS JOY
We are investing several months reviewing the 4 core values of B4T – relationships, accountability, transparency and perfection. This month we continue the focus on the need for real accountability. Joy! A B4T worker recently asked me to hold him accountable for the...
LEADERSHIP & ACCOUNTABILITY
Oswald Sanders writes, The goal of my spiritual life is such close identification with Jesus Christ that I will always hear God and know that God always hears me. If I am united with Jesus Christ, I hear God all the time through the devotion of hearing. A flower, a...
THE GOAL OF B4T
Is drinking alcohol good? Is drinking alcohol bad? Drinking wine is one of life’s pleasures which even Jesus enjoyed, but if we drink alcohol all the time we become a drunkard. So if we wake up thinking about drinking and drinking then becomes a driving force in our...
A PLEA FOR RELATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
As we talk about recalibrating mission, last month we looked at the need for relationships in all we do. This month, the focus is on real accountability. Many mission agencies I’ve worked with tell me that they place a priority on accountability. But when I question...
REAL ACCOUNTABILITY
I was in a Central Asian city meeting with a group of nearly thirty mission workers. As I spoke, the workers were sitting in a U shape around me. There were two couples who were sitting on my right partially behind me, both older, retired business leaders. They had...
RELATIONSHIPS–A FAMILY REMINDER
In the book “If It Ain’t Broke...Break It!” Robert Kriegel shares a story I’ve never forgotten. I knew all about focusing on strengths and not emphasizing weaknesses, I had read the research, I had even written about it. Yet it slipped my mind when dealing with...
A CASE FOR RELATIONSHIP
One late summer day, so long ago I cannot remember if I was 5 or 8. Often during those long summer days, grandma and I would go out back to pick the blackberries growing along her backyard fence. I loved those times. Grandma was full of godly wisdom which she...
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