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by Bob and Debby Gass
Sharing Your Dream (1)
April 16, 2012
‘…That you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.’ 1 Corinthians 1:10 NIV
To fulfil your dream you must know how to share it with others. And to do that successfully you must be able to connect with them in four ways. First, you must connect with them logically. What people don’t believe, they don’t buy into. So your first step is to gain credibility. If you don’t, you will not be able to proceed any further. How do you do that? By communicating a realistic understanding of the situation as it is today. Every time you share your vision, one of the first things people will ask is: ‘But what about…?’ If they don’t ask it out loud, they say it to themselves. And they will keep asking it until you have addressed all their concerns. This requires being extremely thorough when sharing your dream, and not dwelling on its positive benefits to the exclusion of the challenges. Secondly, you must provide a sound strategy they can believe in. If a dream seems too large and unattainable, people will become discouraged and quickly lose interest. When big dreams are broken down into smaller pieces and different pieces are given to talented individuals, the task seems more attainable and each person involved has an increased sense of personal ownership and involvement. There is a real art to communicating all this effectively, without getting bogged down in details or boring people. You have to give enough information to satisfy most people, but not so much that you lose them. All this takes skill, practice and God’s help. But to share your dream with others, you must learn to do it.
SoulFood: Jer 22–24, Mark 2:1–12
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2012
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