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Inspiring Others

I read John Maxwell’s blog post this morn­ing and it made me think about the effect of our lives on oth­ers.   Do we inspire them?  Maxwell pro­poses this Inspi­ra­tion Equa­tion to reveal how we inspire others:

What They Know(about us) + What They See(about us) + What They Feel (about us)=(are they) Inspired

I think how we inspire oth­ers is a good mea­sur­ing line for effec­tive­ness con­cern­ing Spir­i­tual Lead­er­ship.  Break­ing down this equa­tion makes us think from oth­ers’ van­tage point and should cause us to ask ques­tions of ourselves.

• Do peo­ple know that we care or just know our agenda?
• Have we sought to under­stand oth­ers where they are at?
• Are we trust­wor­thy enough to con­fide in and be vul­ner­a­ble with?
• Do we live out what we talk about?

Our abil­ity to influ­ence, moti­vate and inspire oth­ers helps us lead.  No other man ever did this as well as Jesus when He poured His pas­sion out and inspired 12 men and ulti­mately the world.

As we build rela­tion­ships and live out our pas­sion for the Lord, we can cause a rip­ple effect that moti­vates and inspires oth­ers to live boldly for Him.