Why take time to follow “Deepen Your Influence – The Online Seminar” starting the week of October 15?
1. CHALLENGE
The needs of our world, our communities, our families, and our churches are enormous today. Believers need to step up to the challenge to be positive spiritual influences wherever they live and work.
2. CONVERSATION
You will be in the middle of an online conversation with voices from around the world. And you will have an opportunity to ask your questions, offer your opinions, and help start a vivid conversation.
3.CHANGE
We all need to change and grow in the influence and/or leadership we exercise. Here are some personal benefits as described by one reader (Amazon review of Spiritual Influence: the Hidden Power Behind Leadership).
Spiritual Influence at first glance may appear to be just another leadership book for a church/business culture obsessed with defining who is (or describing how to be) “in charge.” But hold the ponies, this book offers a fresh, challenging, and inspiring vision of what it looks like for anyone to influence someone else for their spiritual good.
In point of fact: we are all influencers, some good, others wretched. Lawrenz writes solidly from a distinctive biblical worldview; articulating well the unique virtues of true spiritual leadership in all of our most important relationships.
If you, like me, are burned out on the rhetoric of “leadership” that somehow has subverted the Church’s mission of everyday people helping others walk as disciples in extraordinary ways then you will find the Jesus-way described in this book to recalibrate your purpose, no matter where it is you live out your discipleship. Lawrenz’s clear thinking prompted me to reflect on my role as wife, mom, friend, counselor/discipler, blogger, and teacher. If you “lead” anyone, this book will shape your perspective in necessary ways that will strip away all comfortability with the secular model of power, “one-upmanship,” and control. It will mess with your insides, especially if you learned to gain and guard your position of leadership with the art of style over substance. This book provokes growth from the inside out. While it is a quick read, it will be a long journey of becoming a person who embodies the particular kind of power of which the Bible speaks.
