We teach what we know and we learn what we see.

I would be able to explain to you the rudimentary elements of a golf swing because it has been explained to me. That is not to say that I know how to play golf. If you want a golf mentor then I suggest you look elsewhere. In life we only really know what we can do or are doing. As a parent and a leader I am so aware that what I impart to my family and our church is not so much theory but practice. Less do what i say and far more do what I do.

This is not to say that we have to have totally mastered life before we can begin to inspire another. If this were the case then nothing much would get done. It is however true that it is not possible to take someone further than we are prepared to go ourselves.

“Example is leadership.” – Albert Schweitzer. It is not only what we say but what people see us doing.

So we teach what we know and we learn what we see not so much what we hear.

Leadership and Godly influence starts with us, we must first lead ourselves. We must be constantly examining what we carry, what we value, and what we believe and then ask “how is that evident in my average week?”

If people primarily learn from what they see in us not so much what they hear – What are they seeing?

So as leaders and life carriers let our prayer this week be:

Psalm 139:23 -24 (NKJV)
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
24 And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.

Have a great week

yours for His cause.

Geoff Blight