by Ben Sternke on May 6, 2013
(This post, like the last one, was co-written with my wife Deb, who also leads huddles and coaches leaders, and is generally awesome.)
As we mentioned in the last post, the two questions we are asking when we lead others in huddle (a discipling vehicle for training leaders in the way of Jesus) are:
- What is God saying to you?
- What are you going to do about it?
Last time we dealt with the common struggle of actually hearing what God is saying to you (instead of simply jumping to a plan out of a sense of guilt or expedience). Today we’ll deal with the other question – the common struggle of responding concretely to what God is saying.
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by Ben Sternke on April 29, 2013
(This post was co-written with my wife Deb, who also leads huddles and coaches leaders, and is generally awesome.)
The two essential questions we are asking others when we are leading them in huddle (a vehicle for discipling and training leaders) are:
- What is God saying to you?
- What are you going to do about it?
However, here’s what we find many times: when we ask “What is God saying to you?” the response starts with “I think I just need to _____.” See that? They jumped to “What are you going to do about it?” and skipped the actual articulation of “What is God saying to you?” This is a very common struggle. People will either skip right to their plan of action or default to talking about what they should be doing.
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