Comments on: WANTED: Heads Up. http://www.livebold.org/archives/378 faith that doesn't back down. Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: don hinton http://www.livebold.org/archives/378/comment-page-1#comment-39 don hinton Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:28:17 +0000 http://www.livebold.org/?p=378#comment-39 Steve, what a terrific witness...... thanks for your willingness to get in the game and your discipline to play your heart out!! I love and appreciate you more than you will ever know!! don h Steve,
what a terrific witness…… thanks for your willingness to get in the game and your discipline to play your heart out!! I love and appreciate you more than you will ever know!!
don h

]]> By: Steve Rusk http://www.livebold.org/archives/378/comment-page-1#comment-25 Steve Rusk Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:54:16 +0000 http://www.livebold.org/?p=378#comment-25 Greg is talking about basic need of all humans but, especially men. I think that this basic need of belonging and love is so important that a person can not get to the next step unless that basic need is met. An individual can not act upon the next growth needs unless the lower growth need needs are met. I know that is why when you hear someone’s Faith story that almost always sound the same. There is a low period in their life when they don’t feel anyone else cares about them and they seek love and connection anyway they can. Usually there is a providential relationship that turns the person to God. Look back, are there people you feel God providentially brought into your life at critical times? Who? How did God use them? I hear stories all the time about kids coming to MYF and it becomes important so much to them that their lives change. The next thing you know is that their parents are coming to church to see what’s it all about. That MYF leader has a providential relationship with this young person and it changes the whole family. I remember that we sang “It only takes a spark to get a fire going. That providential relationship is the spark. If you are like most people you can’t tell your life story without referencing people who played significant roles along the way. The same is true of your faith story. I remember that I brought my granddaughter to Sunday school when my wife was out of town. She asked me if I would do that. It would have been easy to just stay home that day. My wife told me to take Taylor and drop her off and go to Walmart for an hour or so. She was part of this providential relationship. But the person that I feel made the difference was Don Hinton. I sat on the front of his Sunday school class he was talking about a relationship with God. How God wanted a relationship with me. He handed me a FCA bible and told me that I could keep it. That was the providential relationship that I needed to start doing all the thing that my conscience was telling me to do for months. The kind of things like reading that bible, private disciplines are very important to a spiritual growth. Since strong human relationships are held together through discipline and self-control, we should not be too surprised to discover that our relationship with God requires the element of discipline as well. The notion of a discipline being essential to an authentic, heart felt relationship might seem strange. After all, discipline is about routine. A relationship is fluid. But if you think about it, every healthy relationship is held together partly by disciplined actions and routines. Our relationship with God shares a similar dynamic. Abandoning these practices leaves God on the sideline of our lives. God is calling out Put me in Coach. Maslow studied the basic needs of humans and formulated a hierarchical model. Maslow put the need for love and belonging as a very low and basic need. If motivation is driven by the existence of unsatisfied needs, then it is worthwhile for men to understand which needs are the more important for individual in their basic relationships. In this regard, Maslow developed this model in which basic, low-level needs such as physiological requirements and safety must be satisfied before higher-level needs such as self-fulfillment are pursued. In this hierarchical model, when a need is mostly satisfied it no longer motivates and the next higher need takes its place. As a person tries to LiveBold he must meet these basic needs. Greg is talking about basic need of all humans but, especially men. I think that this basic need of belonging and love is so important that a person can not get to the next step unless that basic need is met. An individual can not act upon the next growth needs unless the lower growth need needs are met. I know that is why when you hear someone’s Faith story that almost always sound the same. There is a low period in their life when they don’t feel anyone else cares about them and they seek love and connection anyway they can. Usually there is a providential relationship that turns the person to God. Look back, are there people you feel God providentially brought into your life at critical times? Who? How did God use them?

I hear stories all the time about kids coming to MYF and it becomes important so much to them that their lives change. The next thing you know is that their parents are coming to church to see what’s it all about. That MYF leader has a providential relationship with this young person and it changes the whole family. I remember that we sang “It only takes a spark to get a fire going. That providential relationship is the spark.

If you are like most people you can’t tell your life story without referencing people who played significant roles along the way. The same is true of your faith story. I remember that I brought my granddaughter to Sunday school when my wife was out of town. She asked me if I would do that. It would have been easy to just stay home that day. My wife told me to take Taylor and drop her off and go to Walmart for an hour or so. She was part of this providential relationship. But the person that I feel made the difference was Don Hinton. I sat on the front of his Sunday school class he was talking about a relationship with God. How God wanted a relationship with me. He handed me a FCA bible and told me that I could keep it. That was the providential relationship that I needed to start doing all the thing that my conscience was telling me to do for months. The kind of things like reading that bible, private disciplines are very important to a spiritual growth. Since strong human relationships are held together through discipline and self-control, we should not be too surprised to discover that our relationship with God requires the element of discipline as well. The notion of a discipline being essential to an authentic, heart felt relationship might seem strange. After all, discipline is about routine. A relationship is fluid. But if you think about it, every healthy relationship is held together partly by disciplined actions and routines. Our relationship with God shares a similar dynamic. Abandoning these practices leaves God on the sideline of our lives. God is calling out Put me in Coach.

Maslow studied the basic needs of humans and formulated a hierarchical model. Maslow put the need for love and belonging as a very low and basic need. If motivation is driven by the existence of unsatisfied needs, then it is worthwhile for men to understand which needs are the more important for individual in their basic relationships. In this regard, Maslow developed this model in which basic, low-level needs such as physiological requirements and safety must be satisfied before higher-level needs such as self-fulfillment are pursued. In this hierarchical model, when a need is mostly satisfied it no longer motivates and the next higher need takes its place. As a person tries to LiveBold he must meet these basic needs.

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