June 10. Is Graduation Permission To Stop Learning?

As entrepreneurs or team leaders we often are the ones to hire or bring on new people to our team. Do you look for people that are highly educated, highly educable or both? If we want people on our teams who are lifetime learners, we might pay attention to the educable area.

A team member who believes that they have learned all they need will be a limited resource. They might have stopped growing. Those who are highly educable can learn while working with our team though. They will need team members around them that know how to share and help others grow.

A team that is growing has a large potential for profitability and for value. Where might your team or its members have stalled in their growth and learning? Where are you concentrating your growth and learning? Where might you be stalled?

I am curious as to how your team members would respond if asked where they think that they have stalled. Would they be able to see the barriers that have caused it, or would their leader have an idea? Our ability to collaborate to help one another keep from getting stunted is powerful.

What is the first thing you can do about it in the next seven days?

In Philippians 1:9-10 NLT we read, "I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return."

I think that we can sometimes get concentrated on our living, loving, and serving with Christ. But we are called to a lifetime of learning as well. Graduations are not just acknowledgements of your past accomplishments but may be catapults to another level of learning. For some, the learning stops.

Formal education in a school district stops for members at some point. But where might you have stopped learning about Christ? What study could you take up for the next seven or forty days? Would it be a worthy objective to study Jesus more?

Starting with a minimum level objective just might be the answer to a deeper connection. It could be a path to reacquaint ourselves with him. What is the first thing you can do in the next seven days? 

Let us pray, Jesus, we want to know you more. Walk with us not only in service, in love, but also in our quest to know and learn more about you. Draw us closer to you by strengthening our knowledge of you as well as strengthening our love for you and your church. Open my mind’s eye to your lessons so that I may truly see and live. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,