leader , if you don ’ t feel significant , how could you possibly hope to make your team feel significant ?
It ’ s easy to define our value and significance based on the work we do . If we do a good job as a leader , we have value . Unfortunately , that also means that if something goes wrong or if someone is unhappy with us , we feel that we have no value . your job . You have value , right now , regardless of what you may feel . Start seeing that significance and you can start making your team feel significant . The come-back effect starts with you .
Excerpted from The Come Back Effect by Jason Young & Jonathan Malm . Used by permission of Baker Books , a division of Baker Publishing Group ( http :// www . bakerpublishinggroup . com ). Copyright 2020 .
Significance comes from God . Whether we get the job done well or not , we still have value in the eyes of God . We are his children , and nothing that we do or don ’ t do can separate us from his love . On our good days and on our bad days , we still have value in his sight . We can ’ t afford to find our value in others ’ opinions of us .
Your value is more than what other people say about you . It ’ s more than outward symbols of success . Seek God first . Seek his righteousness . Then all the other stuff will come along — the value , the significance . You ’ re bigger than
Jonathan Malm runs SundaySocial . tv and ChurchStageDesignIdeas . com , reaching more than 70,000 church leaders each month . He has begun multiple businesses and consults with churches regularly on guest services and creative expression . Jonathan had the privilege of directing Echo Conference in 2013 , a church conference with over 1,000 attendees . He lives in San Antonio , Texas .
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