Jaspoon

hungry..hungry...feeding and digesting...

I had such a great feast since last week. I'm not talking about food but rather books and teaching DVDs. hohoho!

I have come to realise more and more that as I give and teach and mentor others, I need to be taught and challenge regularly. One quick way is to read good books and listen to good audio lessons.

I was refreshed by this book "What we can learn from the life and ministry of Bill Bright". Many years ago, I was very interested about the life of Bill Bright as he was the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ. How he started, what keeps him going, what's his fears, what went well, etc... And of course, what this man did and how he live that left a legacy. Campus Crusade is still moving ahead strongly and internationally. This book challenged me on a few areas. Since he talks alot on campus ministry and I'm serving in campus ministry. This is highly recommended book for any leader who is serving in campus ministry. Anyone who believes that as we win the campus today, we can win the world tomorrow. I was personally challenge on my intimacy with God (this is the most important thing is leader's life), my mind and heart is expanded on the area of Fund raising for ministry (money is important for ministry and leader who touch the fund raiser), my life must be convinced that campuse ministry is one the effective way to touch the world (Polytechnics, ITEs, University)!



















Next was 2 DVD lessons by John Ortberg and an interview by Bill Hybels with Carly Fiorina (ex-CEO of HP).

John Ortberg taught about Leader's greatest fear. John Ortberg is as usual witty in his preaching on the book of Esther. He addressed that leaders need to be careful of our mission becomes a shadow mission. A leader who pursue a shadow mission usually are motivated by selfishness, ego and pleasure. This happen to any leader especially to those high level of leadership. The mission may appear godly but was envelop with dark motivation. So leaders must allow people to probe in their organisation/group - why we do the things we do. It's amazing truth to me.

Carly Fiorina was interviewed on her leadership in a male dominated industry. She shared her experiences and leadership learnings and her walk with God. One leadership lesson I learnt from her life especially her days in managing HP was No one should affect our security in God / confidence in fulfilling the task because of someone's biaseness or unbelief. This is so true and especially when environment that leaders are in may not be so condusive.

I'm trying to get the book by her soon - Tough Choices (Indeed, leaders sometime have to make tough choices as he/she leads.)

Lastly, I'm doing a studying on the life of Nehemiah. Last Sunday in RDMM, few of us were discussing more indepth on the life of Nehemiah. I was blessed by some of the insights that were shared by some as we read deeper on Chapter 1 and 2.

Praise God that I can fellowship with right people and discuss further on the scriptures. Indeed, I'm growing and learning. It's good to keep spiritual hunger strong and go to the right food!

posted by jaspoon @ 12:22 AM