by NILO | Oct 10, 2018 | blog
Become a space for transformation by acknowledging and activating the potential within you. Transformation is what allows us to become more of who we were meant to be. It is through transformation that we become the people that we’ve always envisioned for ourselves....
by NILO | Oct 7, 2018 | blog
The next account we will study is the opposite of the account of the Tower of Babel. In the next account, we see Moses as the leader of the Israelites and how he led this group into a transformation process, both in terms of their spiritual and physical statuses in...
by NILO | Oct 3, 2018 | blog
Up until the account of the Tower of Babel, the whole world had one language, one common speech that all people understood (Genesis 11:1-9). There was no French, English, Japanese, or what have you. There was one language that every single person on earth understood....
by NILO | Sep 30, 2018 | blog
In the context of leadership in the Body of Christ, Barton (2012) talked about something called “corporate discernment.” We will discuss this term in order to understand Group Word to a better degree. Corporate discernment is described as responding to the...
by NILO | Sep 26, 2018 | blog
Scharmer (2007) described the need to move first into intimate connection with the world and to a place of inner knowing that emerges from within ourselves. It is followed by bringing forth the new, which entails discovering the future by doing. How do we tap into the...
by NILO | Sep 23, 2018 | blog
A distinct future is something that can only be achieved through high engagement within the group members. The essence of leadership is about convening, valuing, relatedness, and decentralizing its own role (Block, 2008). We see an example of this: Hebrews 10:24 tells...
by NILO | Sep 19, 2018 | blog
Erhard, Granger, Jensen, and Zaffron (2013) talked about how your frames of reference are incorporated in your “wall of bricks.” Erhard et al. (2013) noted that an entire wall of bricks represents your worldview. Your frame of reference is related to some specific...
by NILO | Sep 16, 2018 | blog
Understanding who we are as human beings affects our actions; It changes the course we are going into and allows us to be authors of our lives (Sodhi, 2013). How do we have access to understanding “who we are?” The single biggest stop is one of identity. Identity is...
by NILO | Sep 12, 2018 | blog
Human beings, by nature, have an innate need to belong. This is true for children, as well as for adults. Tom Connor (2006) narrated of a time when he was young when he always intended to be in a club. How many of you can relate? The more exclusive and restricted the...
by NILO | Sep 9, 2018 | blog
Learning to be a leader is somewhat like learning to be a parent or a lover, your childhood and adolescence provide you with basic values and role models. Books can help you understand what’s going on, but experience is the best teacher (Hacker & Roberts, 2004)....