An interview with Andy Crouch by StudentSoul.  

“In his book Respectable Sins, Jerry Bridges tells about meeting a car salesman years ago who told him, “After I became a Christian, I stopped trying to sell cars and started helping people buy cars.”  Bridges comments, “His focus changed from how much money he would make to how he could serve people by helping them buy a car that would best fit their needs and financial situation.”  Tell me, wouldn’t you find that approach to car sales refreshing and appealing?  Wouldn’t you feel that a salesman like that had earned your repeat business?”

-Tchividjian, “Unfashionable”

“If you seek power before service”, Tim Keller says, “you’ll neither get power nor serve.  If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, but you will gain influence.”  Do you want to have an impact on the world around you?  Then serve people in a no-strings-attached manner.  When we serve others, and they know we’re there to serve them for their good, with no hidden agenda, they tune in to what we say because they see us as trustworthy.”

-Tchividjian, “Unfashionable”

A Catalyst interview with Francis Chan.  They discuss “calling”.  You will want to fast-forward to the last 20 minutes to get the interview.

(Source: catalystspace.com)

This is just part of a blog post by Eric Swanson about how staff have traditionally viewed and treated seniors.  I like it both because of Eric’s wisdom offered, but also because an older article by him is still used in Crusade resources that talks about how we need to challenge every single student to ministry (w/ crusade) for a year or more after college. I would like to ask him if he still thinks that is a good idea…..  I left out the first part because I honestly don’t think this is true of our team. But, the part below is worthy of reading….

Now let’s create a different scenario….one that takes kingdom thinking and domain thinking into our equation.

Scenario #1

“What’s your major?”

“Journalism.”

“Wow! Do you know that it is ideas that change the world and there has never been a movement of God without those are able to cast the vision and articulate a plan. I’ve got a Bible study going with students who relate to the written and spoken word—Philosophy majors, English Lit majors, Communication majors, etc. Each week we not only study the Bible and pray for one another but we also take what we are learning in school and connect it to what God wants to do in our world. We’re working on a project that…”

The SouthEast Region has this page on their website.  There are links to a handful of helpful tools/articles.

The website that apparently cost a lot of money.

The 5 things: kingdom vision, team, plan, ongoing equipping, coach.