2. Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is often defined as seeking to understand before being understood. It’s a sacrificing of our need to be heard, to instead understand the perspective of others. It’s placing others before ourselves.
Many Millennials leave church and abandon God because the older generations are holding onto the power they’ve gained through the years. Millennials rarely feel valued and rarely feel heard, so they either jump to a church full of people their age or just start watching football on Sundays instead.
Rather than sacrificing a place of prominence, we often choose to hoard what has been entrusted to us.
Seek to understand before you are understood.
3. Challenge Us
I get the sense that many of us are scared to challenge the fellow brothers and sisters in our lives. Granted, we need to build genuine relationship and trust with people first, but everyone needs people to come around them, to challenge them toward a new way of living.
Someone told me recently, “I don’t want to say that because I might scare them away.” I replied by asking, “Do they need to hear this truth?” The obvious answer was yes.
All of us need people around us, who love us enough, to challenge us.
What keys have you learned in leading others to holy living?
