Seeing the Invisible
  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
  • Subscribe

Taking Truth Home

1/25/2020

1 Comment

 
Picture

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?
​
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.
1 Comment
Michael Hall
2/2/2020 11:24:03 am

Rob. I would love to hear the thoughts on your study if at all possible. However I am not real sure what we can do. If you can include me please let me know how to participate

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    October 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    March 2014
    November 2013
    June 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011

  • Home
  • Contact
  • About
  • Subscribe