Leadership That Gets the Job Done #22

Our Bible verse for this episode is 1 Timothy 4:8 which says, “For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”

Our quote for this episode is from Stewart Friedman. He said, “Leader, in its most important sense, means being the agent of your own life, influencing the things you care about most in the world to make it a richer life.”

In this podcast, we are using as our texts three books: Spiritual Leadership: Moving People On To God’s Agenda by Henry and Richard Blackaby; Next Generation Leader, by Andy Stanley; and Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, by John Maxwell.

Our topic today is Part 4 of “Chapter 1: Connecting Increases Your Influence in Every Situation” from Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, by John Maxwell

I finally started to learn about connecting in high school. My wife, Margaret, and I started dating then. She was very popular, and there were three other young men besides me who were interested in her. To be honest, she had her doubts about me. I was always trying to impress her, but she was suspicious whenever I lavished compliments on her. “Hmph,” she’d say. “How can you say that? You don’t even know me that well!” 

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