Taking Truth Home

This past fall I jumped into a business book study with several of my co-workers using a leadership book that I’d never read before. Turns out that Wooden on Leadership was chock full of excellent thoughts and ideas that were both applicable to our individual lives and to our company. What’s especially remarkable, though, is what happened because we did the study together. Here are three results:

1. I finished the book. Yep, apart from the weekly accountability to read the assigned section I probably wouldn’t have completed the read even though the material was valuable. Like you, I have a lot of other things in life that vie for priority.
2. Our discussion translated paper pages to ground-level applications. Through the brief time we shared together each week, John Wooden’s concepts started to transform my thinking. Time designated to think about what I read drove the ideas much deeper than a simple read-over.
3. We expanded our team language. I’m hearing co-workers use Wooden’s rich terms to describe issues and needs we face in our company. And I understand what they’re saying because I studied the same “vocabulary words”.

It’s simple really: We invested time together discussing a profitable book and we grew.

Now the small group that meets in our home on Saturday nights is looking for a study. It's a demanding task: What will meet our various needs? What will help us take practical steps forward in following Jesus? What will give enough structure that we'll have fodder for discussion? What will enhance Biblical thinking? What's probing enough to help us make application without spoon-feeding surface-level answers to complex, nuanced issues that we face?
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I don't know where we'll land when we meet tomorrow afternoon to discuss, but one thing is for sure: By studying together—whatever it is—we'll profit.

If you'd like to try Seeing the Invisible as a study, I'd love to hear from you!

The book is set up to make it easy to use, with sections at the end of each chapter (“Taking Truth Home”) that give discussion questions to make it simple to build useful conversations. The “Scripture Index” (broken-down by chapter) makes it uncomplicated to trace ideas to their roots in God’s Word.