Engaging others
“If you want to lose friends quickly, start bragging about yourself. If you want to make and keep friends, start bragging about others.”
Unknown
I read a book once that quoted a study on influence. In this report it stated that the most introverted individual exerts an influence on over 10,000 people during the course of their life. Wow, imagine that! You and I are going to influence more than 10,000 people during the course of our lives. What a privilege, what an honour, but even more than this - what a responsibility we carry. To think that we influence over 10,000 people.
How many others are then influenced by these folk, and it goes on and on. It is the old throwing a stone into a pond and creating the ripple effect, the influence spirals out and on. Well if we are going to influence this many people and we are talking about the least amount (in actual fact the number will be far greater), then let’s be a positive influence in their lives, let’s influence people for God and for good.
Let us leave a positive impact and thereby change our world for the better. Be and influencer of good in someone’s life. I dare you to make someone the richer for having known you. Even if the encounter is only a brief one, I dare you to make a difference by letting your “words impart faith and grace to the hearers,” as the Word says in Ephesians 4v29.
In getting along with others 98% depends on our behaviour with others. “Do to others as you would have them do to you,” Jesus said in Luke 6v31. No matter how much work you can do, no matter how engaging your personality may be, you will not advance far in the business of life and ministry if you cannot work through others.
And remember, a wise man once said, “friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.”
Unknown
I read a book once that quoted a study on influence. In this report it stated that the most introverted individual exerts an influence on over 10,000 people during the course of their life. Wow, imagine that! You and I are going to influence more than 10,000 people during the course of our lives. What a privilege, what an honour, but even more than this - what a responsibility we carry. To think that we influence over 10,000 people.
How many others are then influenced by these folk, and it goes on and on. It is the old throwing a stone into a pond and creating the ripple effect, the influence spirals out and on. Well if we are going to influence this many people and we are talking about the least amount (in actual fact the number will be far greater), then let’s be a positive influence in their lives, let’s influence people for God and for good.
Let us leave a positive impact and thereby change our world for the better. Be and influencer of good in someone’s life. I dare you to make someone the richer for having known you. Even if the encounter is only a brief one, I dare you to make a difference by letting your “words impart faith and grace to the hearers,” as the Word says in Ephesians 4v29.
In getting along with others 98% depends on our behaviour with others. “Do to others as you would have them do to you,” Jesus said in Luke 6v31. No matter how much work you can do, no matter how engaging your personality may be, you will not advance far in the business of life and ministry if you cannot work through others.
And remember, a wise man once said, “friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.”
