105 B Teachable

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Market place facts: Just how teachable are you? Market place facts: Just how teachable are you?

MARKETPLACE FACTS

Module 105 BJust How Teachable Are You?

Mario Denton

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Overall purpose of this series on Market place

To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace.

• Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series.

• Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.

Just How Teachable Are You?

Ask yourself the following questions:

Do you normally think that your ideas concerning issues are the

best?

• What are you doing to improve the accuracy of your self-image?

• For example, do you actively seek objective feedback or evaluation by people you respect spiritually? People who are willing to risk telling you what you need to hear.

Do I seek counsel (and honestly evaluate it) before making

significant decisions?

Is my Bible study application-orientated or information-

orientated?

Do I have a questioning mind? Do I seek to learn better ways

of doing things?

Am I reading quality material that challenges, enriches and

expands my life?

• When was the last time someone made a personal observation about my life which resulted in a corrective change?

• Did I express to him my appreciation for his observation?

• Or did I harbor resentment, or seek to justify myself?

Am I a good listener or do I normally spend the 'listening'

time thinking of what I’m going to say next?

• Am I a careful observer of life, seeking to learn from the lives of others?

• Do I 'connect the dots' as to the causes and effects in people’s lives? Or do I just go along, never asking the question, 'why?'

• Do I look to people who are in a position to realistically evaluate my walk with God for spiritual counseling and mentoring?

• By definition a disciple of Christ is a learner or a pupil. A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher. (Luke 6:40)

• It is impossible to be a disciple of Christ and possess an unteachable spirit!

• The Psalmist cried out, Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths, and King Solomon reminded us that a poor, yet wise lad is better than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to receive instruction. (Psalm 25:4, Ecc. 4:13 NASB)

QUESTION: Into which category do you

fall? That of an old foolish king

or of a wise kid?

To be mature is to be basic• St. Paul: …We teach in a spirit of profound

common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. That's what I'm working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me…You've been a good apprentice to me, a part of my teaching, my manner of life, direction, faith, steadiness, love, patience, troubles, sufferings… (Col. 1:28b, 29; 2Tim. 3:10,11a – The Message)

Prayer Focus• Father, In the name of Jesus, I

surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world.

• The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me.

• I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen

Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25

• “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

• Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do

what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

• But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV)

Learning, application and commitment

• One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was …

• I intend to apply this principle in my market place by: …..

• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately.

Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!

Sources and acknowledgementCHRIST@ WORK NEWSLETTER

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Unauthorized use of FCCI, Christ@Work, Crown Companies, their trademarks or logos is strictly prohibited.

• The “Facts of the Matter” is also available through the Internet: www.factsofthematter.org. 2003 R. Dwight Hill.

• Slides compiled by Mario Denton. • Please commit yourself to inform us of the results regarding the

effectiveness thereof should you wish to use this material.

Let's keep the good marketplace vibes alive. Let's network.

Become a member of the Crown Companies Marketplace Coaching Forum.

Tel (w) + 27(0) 82 88 29903. e-mail address:mario@crown.org.za

Website: www.crown.org.za

Blessings from Dr Mario Denton as the Africa: Continental Program Director - Marketplace

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