Category: Christian Leadership

The Business of Faith

Five years ago, Matt Levy and Jeff Ward released their book The Business of Faith: How to Lead Yourself, Unify Your Team, and Create a Remarkable Organization.  The title of the book was intriguing, then it was offered free upon release!

I picked it up and read it during our 2017 Spring Break, when we made a trip to Baylor University, for both a school visit and an opportunity for me to speak to some HR classes.   

Clark Hunt, Chairman and CEO of the Kansas City Chiefs described the book as “A must-read road map to integrating the Christian faith into workplace leadership.”

Reggie McNeal, author of books I’ve summarized previously (including Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders and Get Off Your Donkey!) described The Business of Faith as “A book that pays attention to the leader in leadership.”

Levy and Ward assert, “The best leaders must first lead themselves, and the most important job for leaders is to figure out who is going to lead them.”

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Sticky Faith

My One Word for 2022 is Faith.  Like many parents, I want to build a lasting faith in my kids.

In the Summer of 2016, our Youth Pastor (Kyle Wilson) gave me a copy of Dr. Kara Powell and Dr. Chap Clark’s Sticky Faith.

They started the book with these “Not-So-Sticky-Faith” realities:

  • 40-50% of kids who graduate from a church or youth group will fail to stick with their faith in college.
  • Only 20% of college students who leave the faith planned to do so during high school.  The remaining 80% intended to stick with their faith but didn’t.
  • Somewhere between 30-60% of youth group graduates who abandon their faith and the church return to both in their late twenties.
  • Each month, just less than 50% of full-time college students binge drink, abuse prescription drugs, and/or abuse illegal drugs.
  • College seniors have an average of nearly seven hookups during their collegiate careers, with 28% of them hooking up ten times or more.

Sticky Faith leads our kids to a different future.

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