Ken Blue Ministries

 

What do you want done: You can’t expect people to know or have a clear understanding of what you want them to do, if you are not clear in your own mind, and cannot clearly communicate it. This is the most important point; you must know what you want, and convince others to be on your team.

© Ken Blanchard

Let people know what you want: You must be able to communicate your vision clearly. This takes time and repetition. Don’t assume they know just

because you have announced it. Keep it simple so they understand. Post it, publish it, and proclaim it.

 

Ask them to let you know if they are interested: Create ways they can respond to you, and show their interest. Have cards, or some means, so they can let you know of their interest. Make it easy for people to respond. Let them know how importance of the task or project is. If it is not vital to you, why should they believe it is important?

 

Assure them of your help and support: People fear what they don’t understand. They fear they may not be able to do the job, and will fail. This is why you need a job description for most ministries. In addition, you must assure them that you will supply everything they need for the job. This includes training and tools.

 

Show them how to do it: Show them how to do the task. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that telling is training. It involves telling, showing, doing, and correcting. Preaching is not training. Training is “hands on” work. Jesus preached to the thousands, but He trained the Twelve. He told them. He showed them. He let them do it, and He corrected them. This was His “core” group. Go thou and do likewise.

 

Let them do it. Praise, correct, support, etc. as needed: In the beginning, they will need lots of directing. The Situational Leadership Chart by Blanchard is the most helpful. It is at the top of this article. I recommend you read his books on training others. You job is to train leaders. Therefore, you must learn all you can about the subject.

 

Match new trainees with those who know the job, and let them train them: One of the best training methods is a man or women who is already trained, and have the ability to train others. That makes your job easier, and increases you training team. Jesus set them out by two’s.

 

Pastor, you must be able to train, and lead others if your ministry is to continue. Preaching is not training. Many pastors hide behind the pulpit because they like it there, and they feel safe. Training others is a test of your leadership abilities. You can learn how to do it. Here is the key. “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.” 2 Timothy 2:2. You can learn as you do it; so, do it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Ken Blue

 

“His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.” Proverbs 5:22.

 

Someone has accurately said, “We spend the first thirty years making a mess of our life, and the next thirty trying to fix it.” There is more truth to that than fiction. Most of the sins of a lifetime are learned in our youth.

 

When I was pastoring, I ask one of the strongest men in our church to come to the platform to help me illustrate this point. I took a regular spool of sewing thread and wrapped it around his two hand once.  He broke it with ease. Next, I wrapped it about six times. This time it was a little more difficult, but he broke it. The last demonstration, I wrapped it around about twenty times. It was only sewing thread. What do you think? I can tell you, he could not break it.

 

The question is how many times must we commit an act of sin, or run with the wrong crowd before we are shackled to it, or them. By the time we find out, we find that we are already there.

 

Just a few drinks, just a few pills or powder, just a few acts of theft, just a few acts of sex, just a few words of filth and profanity, just a little folly with fools, and you discover you are one of them. Even if you want to be free, you find the cords of sin have a hold on you, and refuse to let you go. I personally knew a person who went to rehab for drugs and alcohol 21 times, and still died shackled by them.

 

Remember, every act of sin makes the next one easier, and it makes release more difficult. You never play with sin and win. Some who read this think it is a joke. If you think it is, I challenge you to give up the alcohol, the drugs, the profanity, or the crowd you should not be with, and then tell me how easy it is to break free. You have greater odds in Vegas, at the card table, than breaking free of a life of sin.

 

If you need to indulge in the above behavior to feel important, or accepted, you are setting yourself up for a life of misery. Stay clean. Avoid the crowd that will drag you down and introduce you to sins that will not let you go. Otherwise, you will find yourself shackled by your past.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Ken Blue

 

When I was young, I enjoyed the thrill of hunting wild game

I’d hunt anything that walked, or crawled, regardless of its name

Deciding to take them alive, I’d train them for a show

I trained a Polar bear to make a snowman out of snow

 

Squirrels walked on the high wires, and monkeys mastered the trapeze

Whales jumped through the hoops, and mice outwitted the maze for cheese

I taught gorillas sign language, and parrots how to talk

My dog could find anything from steak, to a piece of chalk

 

My fame, it continued to grow, I was known far and wide

People thought I tamed everything, even the wind, and tide

But little did they know, of the battle that raged within

I had tamed everything, except what went unseen by men

 

I battled it every day, but submit, it never would

It boasted with pride, and proclaimed its virtuous good

The tongue is a little member that no man can tame

It blasphemes God, and takes Christ name in vain.

 

Like a deceitful fountain, spewing fresh water, then brine

It was praising God before others, and cursing man all the time

I needed help from without, someone my tongue to tame

By grace I found the Man, and Jesus is his name

 

I’ve given my heart to Jesus, to it, the tongues affixed

A work is being done, so the language won’t be mixed

Death to self is the answer, then a new song can be sung.

The only thing that can’t be tamed, is our unruly tongue