If only it were as easy (or difficult) as heading down to Bunnings! The kinds of tools that I’m talking about are strategies - strategies that help me to move from being a-guy-who-can-help-another-guy to being a a guy who can lead and train 100 Uni Students to mature in the faith and effectively witness to the Kingdom of God. So what I’m going to do is spend some time thinking out loud, reviewing a couple of books and thinking this topic through over the summer.

I’ve done about 10 years of training (including MTS and Bible College) and just started this year to lead a University ministry in Canberra at the ANU. I’ve inherited a ministry almost exactly as I’d experienced it as an undergraduate and so there is much that is familiar about it. Except, of course, that I’m leading it! Consequently, this year I have enjoyed reliving my Uni days but also repeatedly asked myself whether questions about leadership.

There are many questions specific to my situation but some key broader questions are as follows:

• Do I meet up with everyone once, or just a few people often?
• Do I meet up with first years because they’ll be around longer, or do I attempt to train first years through those in latter years?
• Do I take time to write a killer talk and market the group through it’s quality? Or do I spread myself right out to influence as many people as possible?
• Do I place myself as an evangelist, trainer and teacher? Or just focus on two out of three?

Now I know that there are no silver bullets but I’m pretty sure there are some bullets. And I’d like some please.

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

There are things that could be said at this moment that won’t be said. In fact, the fac that is in fact a fact is ridiculous.

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Well, here we are again beginning to blog. Naturally, there’s something that doesn’t quite seem right. It reminds of something a friend of mind said after he became a Christian. The following week he felt a similar conviction of his need to repent and believe. He said that he started becoming a Christian regularly.

Whether it seems right or not, it is what it is.

Now that I’m no longer at College, I’ve felt the urge to write again regularly and feel strangely optimistic about my ability to do this regularly. Perhaps this is because University term has finished and the Summer break lies ahead of me. Perhaps it’s a more religious conviction to place lofty thoughts in a place where I can find them again. Most likely, though, it’s the turning of the sluggard. I suspect that if it was my inner sluggard that prevented me from posting frequently in the past, it’s also my inner sluggard that spurs me to do so into the future.

It’s amazing to see what unworldly powers the mind is capable of producing in the face of menial tasks.