Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:49:58 -0500
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 04/30/01 "Part 1 of 5: Empowering Others"
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EMPOWERING OTHERS
MONDAY -- Part 1 of 5
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Highlights from the radio program
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Anyone in a position of leadership can look back over his or her
life and identify the people who have empowered them. You will never forget
the people who empower you.
Here are the five things that are involved in empowering people:
1. Recognizing their gifts
2. Providing them an opportunity
3. Praising their successes
4. Encouraging them when they fail
5. Protecting them from criticism
GOD EMPOWERS PEOPLE
God empowers people to become His children. He empowers people to
lead His Church. He empowers people for life. He empowers people to witness
for Him.
Notice in the Gospel of John: "But as many as received him, to them
gave he power to become the sons of God" (John 1:12). What a wonderful
manifestation of empowerment. Can you imagine taking someone who is dead
in trespasses and sins, quickening him or her, and giving him or her the
power to become a member of the family of God?
The New Testament says that He empowers people to lead His Church.
In Ephesians 4, Paul says that Jesus gave gifts to men. He gave to the
Church apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. These are
individuals that God gifts and empowers to lead His Church.
He empowers us to witness for Him: "But ye shall receive power, after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me"
(Acts 1:8). Every time you look at the relationship God has with one of
His children, you are struck by the fact that it is an empowering and enabling
relationship.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:51:39 -0500
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 05/01/01 "Part 2 of 5: Empowering Others"
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EMPOWERING OTHERS
TUESDAY -- Part 2 of 5
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A HEALTHY CHURCH EMPOWERS ITS MEMBERS
When you take a look at what is involved in empowering people, you
discover the characteristics of a healthy church.
A healthy pastor does not hold power over the people. He empowers
the people. He does not motivate them by fear and guilt. He motivates them
through faith and hope and love.
Every pastor needs a pastor. An encouraging thing I have heard about
is the existence of a pastoral mentoring movement, where older pastors
take younger pastors and encourage and empower them.
I had a person like that in my life. He taught me how to have board
meetings and how to lead worship. He taught me how to make hospital calls,
how to conduct weddings, how to conduct funerals, and how to do the dedications
of infants. He empowered me. He passed on to me things that he had learned,
and encouraged me by modeling.
He was successful in persuading me that what he was teaching me I
was capable of doing myself.
An empowering pastor in a healthy church will share opportunities
for ministry with people who have the gifts the pastor recognizes. He not
only recognizes those gifts, but he gives an opportunity for those gifts
to be expressed and developed.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:52:36 -0500
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 05/02/01 "Part 3 of 5: Empowering Others"
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EMPOWERING OTHERS
WEDNESDAY -- Part 3 of 5
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A HEALTHY COUPLE EMPOWER EACH OTHER
Criticism and competition take a tremendous toll on marriage. That
is why when I give couples a definition of Christian married love, I make
it operational and demonstrate to them in that definition, and how they
can empower each other to successfully live the married life. That definition
of Christian married love centers on couples empowering each other.
Christian married love is a persistent effort on the part of two
people. It requires efforts and it is persistent effort not on the part
of one person, but on the part of two people.
Christian married love is a persistent effort on the part of two
people to create for each other the circumstances that enable the very
best to come forth. This enables the two people to create for each other
the circumstances in which each can become the person God intended him
or her to be.
In marriage, couples can help each other recognize where their best
gifts are, so that the marriage benefits from the best that each has to
contribute to it. They encourage each other in the expression of those
gifts so that each of them can become the person God intended him or her
to be, a better person than he or she could become alone.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:53:24 -0500
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 05/03/01 "Part 4 of 5: Empowering Others"
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EMPOWERING OTHERS
THURSDAY -- Part 4 of 5
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HEALTHY PARENTS EMPOWER CHILDREN
Unhealthy parents prematurely burden children with responsibility
or shield children from appropriate responsibility. But healthy parents
do not keep children dependent upon them. Healthy parents empower their
children.
When we are talking about healthy parents, we are not talking about
"perfect" parents. We are talking about parents who are mature and responsible,
who are loving and supportive and can provide the child with a way of discovering
his or her gifts.
Such parents give their children opportunities for developing those
gifts--all the things that we have been talking about that are involved
in empowering someone.
Healthy parents empower their children physically, emotionally, mentally,
academically and spiritually. Certainly the child needs to be empowered
morally. That is, as the child acquires a conscience somewhere between
3 and 5 years of age, parents work with the child within the limits of
that conscience. This is to help the child to do the things that leave
the child feeling good and refrain from the things that leave the child
feeling poorly.
It is also important that the parent empower the child spiritually.
As the child learns that he or she can make contact with God--that Jesus
has made that possible, He is the way to God for them--then he or she wants
to discover God personally. The family can teach them of opportunities
to experience the peace of God, the joy of God, and the love of God.
These positive parts of being a Christian will empower them to approach
their Christian life in a very positive way.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:54:09 -0500
Author: dayforward@ag.org (DayForward Online)
Subject: 05/04/01 "Part 5 of 5: Empowering Others"
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EMPOWERING OTHERS
FRIDAY -- Part 5 of 5
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HEALTHY FRIENDS EMPOWER THEIR FRIENDS
Identify the friends who recognize your gifts, who give you an opportunity
to express them, who praise your successes, who encourage you when you
fail, and protect you from criticism. These are healthy friends who deserve
your friendship. Take the time and energy necessary to preserve these friendships.
Healthy friends will empower you socially. They will make you feel
accepted. They will be friendly toward you and put you in touch with people
who will be receptive of you so that they will empower you socially. Social
awkwardness is a step toward social isolation and when we are isolated
socially, we feel abandoned and rejected and alone. Getting people out
of that prison is a ministry that friends can often have to friends.
We can also empower our friends academically. Some of us have better
verbal skills than others. Others excel in mathematical skills or computer
skills. When you have friends who will freely share their strengths with
you, they can empower you in areas where you are weak and you can empower
them in areas where they are weak. That is why study groups and self-help
groups are so important, because it is an example of friends empowering
friends.
Friends can empower each other morally and spiritually. We need people
who are spiritual and moral people, but who can relate to us in human,
everyday ways. If our friends can be spiritually strong and relate to us
in nonjudgmental ways, they will empower us morally and spiritually.
Those are the very kind of people we want to be around. They will
encourage that spiritual hunger in us that wants to reach out to God but
needs some affirmation.
Empowering others is one of the most satisfying ways a person can
spend his or her life. You are never more like the Lord than when you are
empowering people, so look to empower people in your family, at your school,
and on your job.
Never forget that the Lord will give you the power to become His
child if you are willing to receive Him as your Savior. Open your heart
to Him, confess your sins to Him, and believe Him for the grace and power
to bring His highest and best into your life so you can share it with others.
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