Job Change Update + Fear and Faith [SoulHacks]
A note on my job transition and the first SoulHacks idea in your inbox.
Below you’ll find a few ways I hope to make your day better now and in future correspondance…
First, I’m giving you the inside scoop with a personal update on my work transition this month and what I’m doing in the future.
Then, after that is a “SoulHack” idea that I hope helps you simplify your spiritual life.
Finally, stay tuned till the end to get your hands on a book I want to give you for free to add value to your life as a thank you for subscribing right here. Yep, FREE.
Job Change Update
In late 2020 I felt released from my work as chief of staff for The Wesleyan Church. After nine years of leadership and service, I sensed I should hand over the baton to others. So, what am I doing next?
In my coaching I try to help people rethink the question “what do you do?” away from the typical obsession with one job or a primary paycheck. Instead, I want people to identify how they add value to the world around them no matter how they earn a living. Then, of course, how they earn a living should be a primary way to get that done. My current transition is an example: though my primary job is changing the four things I have been doing to add value to the world around me are not changing—the “delivery systems” are just different as I mobilize, clarify, coach, and launch (my apologies if any of the below seems like I’m kind of “pitching” each of these to you—but I believe in each of these and get a bit excited).
MOBILIZE — I continue to mobilize multipliers into starting all kinds of new churches, but particularly with microchurches, through the One Multichurch Network, several other church planting partnerships I have, and into starting churches around the world, through Global Partners, my longtime preferred sending org.
CLARIFY — I continue to work to help teams clarify their mission and their adaptive strategic plan (my approach to strategic operations) in my consulting work. I now have much more time to devote to this and I’m taking on clients for the Fall of 2021. I also want to bring my heart and humor to bear in print, digital, and video communication in a way that is relevant to the next generation and faithful to the core Christian beliefs.
COACH — I continue to coach people in three ways:
Executive Coaching, primarily with intensive one-on-one 36-hour personal clarity summits and then follow up meetings to craft a personalized 1Sheet;
SixQ Cohorts, which offer a convenient online coaching path, and group dialog sessions with me to dig deeper and answer questions; and…
Author Coaching comes with seven different options for services, depending on what the author (or potential author) needs to succeed in their writing life next.
LAUNCH — I continue to help start or restart initiatives and innovations, using my “Scaffolding” method of second chair leadership. I offer short-term consulting setting orgs toward long-term solutions by relaunching something that isn’t working or launching something new to solve problems in orgs. I also have an advisory relationship with several orgs where I’ve already launched something and now I’m just a “friend of their mission.”
So that’s what I’m up to, please reach out by clicking here below if I can assist you with any of the above (or just reach out in general to say hello, this button gives you my new email address to stay in touch that way too):
meanwhile…
Fear and Faith [SoulHacks]
"It was by faith that Moses left the land of Egypt, not fearing the king's anger. He kept right on going because he kept his eyes on the one who is invisible." -Hebrews 11:27 (NLT)
We often think disbelief is the greatest enemy of faith. In fact, the greatest enemy of faith is fear.
When wrapped up in our worries about what should, could or would happen we have lost faith in what God makes happen.
We become people of the probable, visible world that is limited rather than disciples of the improbable, invisible one that is unlimited.
Ambrose Redmoon said:
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
Those with faith in the unseen are people of unlikely courage with kingdom values. They know that there is nothing to fear but God alone.
Fearing God and being in awe of the Creator who can do all things, those with faith strike forth as Moses did out of Egypt. In the kingdom-of-God value system the leader of the greatest superpower on earth at the time (Egypt) was merely a pawn in the great designs of the Creator, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
A soulhacker learns this value system, and their faith becomes the greatest enemy of their fear.
What are the most threatening fears in your life right now?
What qualities, promises, names, and actions of God could strengthen your faith in the face of these fears?
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Anxious to read your book! It's exciting to where God has taken you since 6th grade! :)
Can't wait to read "SoulHacks"... Praying for you and your family -- super excited for you!