 Tools & Trainings E-Newsletter Issue 68 February 14, 2012 |
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Finishing Well
In his outstanding work The Making of A Leader, J. Robert Clinton studied the lives of hundreds of leaders and asked the question, "What makes a leader finish his/her life well?" We use the answers to this question in our Organic Greenhouse Story 2 Training to push our leaders to have a long-view of finishing well. These were what Clinton found to be the top 5 commonalities:
A Leader who Finishes Well: - has a perspective that focuses his/her energies on ministry strengths.
- maintains a learning posture throughout all his/her life.
- enjoys repeated times of personal/spiritual renewal.
- mentors others while continuing to be mentored.
- disciplines her or his own spiritual formation.
Are you on track to finish well? Is it time for some course correction?
The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development
by Robert Clinton by NavPress
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 Upcoming Trainings- Organic Greenhouse
 Seattle, WA // Story 1 & 2
March 9-11
with Neil Cole & Ed Waken
Early Bird Registration Ends 2/9 Details
Dripping Springs (Austin), TX // Story 1
March 23-25
with Neil Cole & Katie Driver
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Toronto, Canada // Story 1
March 23-25
with Phil Helfer & Scott Wilson
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Church Transfusion Training: Releasing Organic Principles in Established Churches March 9-10 in Long Beach, California with Phil Helfer & Bob Mabry Special underwritten registration rates: Only $90 Details
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Other Organic Church Learning Opportunities
Verge 2012
February 28-March 2, 2012
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Featured Resources
 Letters to the House Church Movement: Real Letters, Real People, Real Issues
by Rad Zdero
This book is a collection of real letters to real people facing real issues. This 10-year collection of over 40 real-life letters will challenge, persuade, and encourage.
 Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are (Hardcover) by Neil Cole
Cole builds on his previous works, offering insight on church leadership today. Inthis work he addresses: How the church has carried on for far too long with faulty leadership ideas, without questioning them, and much more... >> SALE -- ONLY $5 Order now
 Upward, Outward, Inward: Passing on the Baton of Discipleship
by Mitsuo Fakuda
This book from the Japanese house church provides one way for any Christian to become a discipler: it gives simple, practical ways to live out the Gospel, to explain the Gospel, and to pass the baton of discipleship on to others.
 Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship
by Alan & Deb Hirsch Mentoring Guide Forms are a tool to be used by a leader or mentor to take notes on during a mentoring appointment with an apprentice. A key recording tool for the growth & multiplication of leaders, that is: Mentoring 2 Multiply - M2M.
For the whole list of resources on Sale >> click HERE
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Featured Article
Our Role and God's Role in Making Disciples
by Gavin Duerson
 Can you cause a person to grow spiritually? When it comes to disciple making, what is our responsibility?
At a Greenhouse Training event hosted by CMA Resources, we examined the following text from the Gospel of Mark chapter 4: 26 He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.28 All by itself the soil produces grain-first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29 As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come."
From the text, we see that a farmer can cultivate the ground and plant seeds, and even put the sickle to the plant once mature, but can do nothing to cause a seed to grow! In simple/organic church planting, the church planter (or disciplemaker)....
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