20 Life and Leadership Lessons Learned From Reggie Joiner

1. God doesn’t use perfect pictures. He uses broken people.
2. God wants to tell the story of redemption and restoration in every family.
3. God’s story of redemption in a parent’s life gives a child a front row seat to the grace of God.
4. The environment you want to create is one where no matter how far people might stray they want to come back
5. People will never believe you love them if they feel you don’t like them
6. Your legacy matters most with the people closest to you
7. Nobody has more influence in the life of a child than a parent
8. A parent is not the only influence a child needs
9. Two combined influences have a greater impact than just two influences
10. 100 years from now, the only thing that will matter in the life of a child is their relationship with God
11. Every child needs another voice saying the same thing a loving parent would say.
12. People will not believe they are significant until you give them something significant to do
13. Fight for people not with them
14. Push others into the spotlight
15. Change isn’t an option
16. Strategic steps beat random programs
17. The problem with needs based ministry is there’s no end to human need
18. Your strategy ultimately determines the success of your ministry.
19. Teach Less For More
20. Focus on who you want to reach, not who you want to keep

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Book Review: The Slow Fade by Joiner, Bomar & Smith

This is another book I picked up at Drive Conference 2010. My initial thought was that The Slow Fade by Joiner, Bomar & Smith would serve as a good resource in connecting with college students for our Ignite Worship Service geared at reaching young adults. Instead, I discovered that I picked up a guide to mentoring. Although not explicitly stated, this book provided all the resources necessary to starting a mentoring ministry.

Chapter 4, “Mentoring Redefined,” presented a detailed description of the role of a mentor – again there is no list, but I did come up with 6 key roles from this chapter. Chapter 5, “A New Bread of Leader,” described 8 things a mentor should be intentional about doing. Appendix A “A Note To Ministry Leaders,” gave Chuck Bomar’s mentoring ministry strategy.

Overall, this is by far the best book I have read on “How To” mentor. While the premise for this book deals with this subject, the title and subtitle do not, which is the only knock on it. If you work with college students (the intended target of this book) or young adults, you really need to read through this book. I am already excited to equip some of our mentors with the tools learned from reading this book… and not being able to sleep (tonight) finally paid dividends!