The Director’s Cut

Must-Win Battles

September has rolled around again and that means that the International Corporate training season is upon us. I leave on Wednesday for the US first-stop Louisville KA where I am delighted to be involved in the Friends of Norman Grubb Reunion before heading for Philadelphia to facilitate a corporate training programme. Quite apart from the struggle of being away from home I am loathe to miss a moment of what is proving to be the most exciting work that I have been involved in since we launched Grace West in 2000.

In preparation for the programme that I am facilitating in the US I have been reading this year’s must read management book which goes by the name of “Must-Win Battles” by Peter Killing and Thomas Malnight, published by Wharton it is a really interesting read. Whilst prepping I found myself applying the key issues that are raised in the book to our situation in The Grace Project and in doing so it helped me to bring some real focus to where we are in Christ.

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Easy Grace? - you must be kidding!

Thanks to Paul Anderson-Walsh we have had some wonderful teaching about the grace of God and Christ working within us. It is a joy to know that we have eternal security and that sin has no power over us, but has it made a positive impact on our day-to-day life experience? The problem with grace theology, along with other practical theologies, is that a system of belief does not necessarily guarantee satisfactory outcomes, at least not this side of eternity.

I remember my years as a Word of Faith Christian, I firmly believed ‘by his stripes I am healed’, therefore I was already healed. Now nothing wrong with that at face value, except that if I was already healed I was not allowed to speak or act sick any more! Because of the doctrine of ‘confess it and possess it’ and ‘we can have whatever we say’, I became too ashamed to ever admit I was ill. The same reasoning applied to finances – my tithe made me right with God, so now he would provide all my needs and open up the windows of heaven, I will never lack – but I did lack, and in that lack I felt that I had somehow fallen short!

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