It is easy to hear ideas and claim them as truth with little personal thought. This approach to life tends to leave one with a collection of beliefs that are shallow, unfounded, and which are easily given up or held dogmatically. We will think about the process of moving from staking a claim to owning that claim, the process of developing well-developed, productive, personal beliefs.
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SERIES: REACH 2017
All items in the series:- A Businessman's Perspective on Fundraising
- A Call to Battle
- A Servant Heart
- An Effective Newsletter
- Attitude and Heartbeat of A Successful Volunteer
- Authentic Leadership
- Authority, Accountability, and Responsibility
- Avoiding Burnout: Maintaining Spiritual Vitality
- Becoming A Global Christian
- Being Great at Home
- Beliefs: From Claiming to Owning
- Bible Translation: Why Not Leave It for Wycliffe?
- Board Governance: The Four Core Elements
- Building Confidence with Your Support Base
- Building Spiritual Relationships
- Building Trust in Leadership Teams
- Business and Brotherhood: Rethinking the Relationship
- But What Can I Do?
- Chairing Nonprofit Boards
- Clarifying Mission Vision and Values
- Communicating the Gospel with Clarity and Power
- Conducting Bible Studies with the Unchurched
- Course Correction Panel Discussion
- Cross-Cultural Communication
- Cross-Cultural Ministry in Urban America
- Defending Your Faith
- Developing Your Leadership To-Be List
- Digging for Gold
- Dignity and Depravity
- Effective Board Structure and Processes
- Effectively Leading a Team
- Establishing National Churches in the Developing World
- Family as Ministry
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Financing Your Vision For Missions without Fundraisers!
- Finding and Refining Your Story
- Five Essential Traits of Christian Leadership
- Funding Your Ministry with Gifts of Net Worth
- Get in the Way of Evil
- God Loves Story
- God's Glory in the Refugee Crisis in Lesvos Greece
- Graduation: Then What?
- Great Leaders
- Heritage: Owning Reality to Seize Opportunity
- Keeping the Family the Number One Ministry
- Keeping the Vision in a Support Role
- Leadership Challenges During Times of Transition
- Leading and Chairing Meetings
- Lesson Components for Teaching
- Lessons Learned in Parenting 24 Children in 34 Years
- Life's Two Most Important Questions
- Lifetime Career in Ministry
- Longevity in Mission
- Maintaining an Organizational Vision
- Maintaining Healthy Cross-Gender Relationships
- Maintaining Momentum through Transition
- Making Content that Makes a Difference
- Meeting and Befriending Muslims
- Meeting the Medical Needs of Ministry Staff
- Ministering Cross-Culturally
- Ministering to Your Neighbors
- Ministry Opportunities in Asia
- Ministry: Mastering Service while Serving the Master
- Moral Purity and Ministry
- Nonprofit Fundraising through Estate Planning
- Nonresistance and the Gospel
- Ordering Your Digital World
- People Are Going to Hell: Why Bother with Aid?
- Practical Suggestions for Making Disciples
- Practical Suggestions for Sharing the Gospel
- Prayer in Leadership
- Priorities in Ministry as a Wife, Mother, and Grandmother
- Raising a Family on the Mission Field
- Recruiting Ministry Personnel
- Reevaluating Your Ministry
- Relating to Old Order Amish and Mennonite Donors
- Seeking to Excel in Service
- Serving behind the Scenes
- Slaying Giant Despair
- Stewards of Eternal Treasure
- Stronger Together
- That I May Know Him: Deepening Our Walk with Jesus
- The Annual Audit
- The Challenge of Relationship in Ministry
- The Deacons Choice
- The Essence of the Great Commission
- The Excitement and Challenges of Starting a New Ministry
- The Foreigner among Us
- The Habits of an Effective Team
- The Joy of Being God's Woman
- The Joy of Husband and Wife Relationships
- The Missionary Adapts to a Foreign Culture
- The Paperless Office
- The Power of a Three-Fold Cord
- The Tragedy of a Wasted Life
- This Is Not the Life I Signed Up For
- Understanding the Times
- Unseen Integrity
- Using Humanitarian Efforts to Foster Adult Conversions
- What Can Asian Christians Teach Anabaptists?
- What Is Storytelling and Why Does It Change People?
- What Is That in Your Hand?
- What Shall I Do? Managing Time and Priorities
- Why You Should Prepare to Teach
- Women Navigating Difficult Relationships
- Women Reaching Women with the Gospel
- Working with Generation iY
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