Category: Christian Living

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (97) “HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH GREAT MINDS”

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

One of the most important books I have read on leadership is Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders. I not only read the book but was motivated to go out of my way to spend time with Mr. Sanders whenever he came to the city in which I was living. In the process, he came to my home and spent time teaching my leaders.

The main reason I was motivated to connect with Mr. Sanders was because of a line in his book that urged leaders to have “fellowship with great minds” in their desire to grow to their maximum potential. One way of doing this was to read books …

It’s Important What You See……… FOLLOWERS OR EMERGING LEADERS

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Evangelism, Leadership, Mission

Picture 2 LEADERS OR FOLLOWERS
For twenty years Douglas Hyde was a member of the Communist Party in England before he renounced Communism and joined the Catholic Church. He then wrote a book called Dedication and Leadership to explain what Christians can learn from the Communist’s attitudes and methods.

One day he was conducting a leadership training course for a group of Communists in London and ended his lecture by saying that the Communist Party could take anyone who was willing to be trained in leadership and turn them into a leader, The one qualification was that the would-be leader must be willing to be trained.

As Douglas stepped down from the rostrum, he met …

DON’T BURN OUT, BURN ON.

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership

Burning

I will never forget the day I invited John Smith, the leader of the Australian Christian Motorcycle Club, The God Squad, to come and speak to a group of youth leaders who had gathered from across Australia for a conference I had arranged.

John spoke on the calling of Moses by God at a burning bush in the wilderness.
“There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire, it did not burn up. So Moses thought, ‘I will go over and see this strange sight – why the bush does not burn up.’”…

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (96) “THE POWER OF REPETITION”

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

Rod Denton Induction at Elizabeth Church of Christ_2012

The Argentinian pastor Juan Carlos Ortiz stood up to preach one Sunday and read three words of Jesus, “Love one another.” Then he sat down. After a few minutes Ortiz got up and again said, “Love one another” and sat down. The congregation began to stir nervously. So, Ortiz got up a third time and said, “Love one another” and sat down.

A man in the front row leaned over to the next man and said, “Is there anything I can do for you?” Gradually people from across the congregation began to reach out to one another to share and pray and cry and give to one another’s needs. They …