Student Staff -Â I posted this a while back on CruPress Green but never linked to it on my blog. So check it out: Student Staff — THE best idea I’ve ever seen in empowering students to lead.
How many times have you heard this from a student: I want to go deep in Bible study?
I almost ditched Cru my freshman year because I thought Cru and its Bible Studies weren’t deep enough. Deep for me was studying prophecies and Revelation. Was I a self-righteous punk? For sure. Am I typical of many Christian students? Probably.
Great post from Trevin Wax on what “going deep” should look like:
- It’s not learning new facts
- It’s not coming up with a new list of to-dos
Going deep is:
- Immersing ourselves in the truth that Jesus Christ bled and died to save helpless sinners like you and me.
- Seeing the depth of our sin and the depth of God’s grace.
Not only should we implement this in our Bible Studies, I think it would serve us to communicate this vision to our students (lest, like freshman Tim, they think we’re not “deep enough”)
Great thoughts for those of you who lead others (especially in staff meetings):
“Next time you walk into a meeting, consider, How do I want people to feel when the meeting is over? Begin with the end in mind.”
Definitely a good reminder. Mental note to self: do not end staff meetings with to-do’s. End with vision. Even better, end with “THIS is the most important thing you should be doing this week”. Then end with vision on why we must do THIS. You can read the full article from Michael Hyatt — 5 Ways to Energize your Team
Google Translate is a cool free app that was released yesterday that will surely greatly benefit missionaries (and of course, tourists) around the world. You can write or speak a sentence into your iPhone/iPad and it will translate it instantly into one of 50 languages (giving the written and spoken translation). More info here.