Category: Christian Living

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

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

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

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 …

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 …

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (95) “YOU HAVEN’T COMMUNICATED UNTIL……..”

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

Rod Denton Induction at Elizabeth Church of Christ_2012 - Copy
We live in a world where there is an oversupply of words with a corresponding undersupply of learning.
John Maxwell made an interesting observation when he said, “The illiterate are not those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn.”
Speaking as a pastor, I came to the conclusion some years ago that if all I did was preach about what people should be doing, I was in danger of hardening people’s hearts and causing them to become sermon tasters and sermon critics. My words were just the beginning of the process of communication.
I now have come to understand that there are three steps to the process …