GodIntersections.com Current Best Thinking says:

  1. God is the  Owner of our Life and we are the Steward.
  2. Good Stewards don’t make “Owner” decisions.  They simply do what they can.
  3. If God is the Owner then He gets to decide how our life turns out.
  4. If we need direction from the Owner then pay attention to the Intersections God creates in our lives.
  5. In the absence of God’s direction our Current Best Thinking is enough.  Act on what you know.
  6. If God (the Owner) wants our Current Best Thinking to change it is His responsibility to show us how.
  7. Significance is found in letting the Owner lead and simply loving the person currently in front of us.

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Mark's Meanderings

The Two Mandates of the Christian Business Owner

I have been having a running dialogue with “the Big Guy” regarding His desires for the “authentic” Christian business owner.  In my many conversations with business owners on the topic the idea of building and stewarding a Christ centered culture is always talked about.  Christ centered culture is my term for aligning our words and actions around Christ based core values, being leaders of integrity and character, being kind and respectful  etc.  The idea is to “walk the talk”.

How “the Facts” are Making Us Tools of the Enemy!

God showed up at one of my coaching sessions last week.   Toward the end of our time this particular individual started reciting a series of wrongs our government in general and our president in particular were perpetrating on we the American people.  The list of “wrongs” was extensive (provided by a popular conservative website) and while I have not checked each of them against snopes.com and other sites I suspect they were all grounded in fact.

Spiritual Touch Stones

As a coach and facilitator I spend much time helping people see life and business differently and in the process growing personally.  There is a danger in my role however.  The danger is getting lulled into thinking I am somehow more knowledgeable, mature, experienced etc.  In other words that “I am ahead of that person”.

While meeting with a friend of mine (Doug Cunningham) Friday for coffee, God showed up and taught me a great Truth (at least a great Truth for me).  The Truth is that growing into the person God has called us to be is simply a matter of experiencing and learning from the Touch Stones God has laid out for us.  The revelation is that IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT ORDER WE TOUCH THEM IN.  In other words I am never a head of or behind any person I work with.  I have experienced different Touch Stones and learned different things and while that is valuable it does not make be better, more mature, more spiritual etc.

The power in this thought lies in being free from the tyranny of linear growth.  We can be Transformed.  We can stop looking at our coaches/mentors/models assuming we can never “achieve” their results.  We can simply glean from their experience and wisdom, joining it with our Touch Stones and rocket into being who God has called and equipped us to be.  Let’s stop spending time trying to get the “order of growth” right and simply experience all we can, learn from those experiences using a God context and Trust God to Transform us as we “do our part”.