A paradigm is an individual belief or personal philosophy inside you. Your belief system is the interaction of all of them together. Whether you have or have not thought out your paradigms, it makes no difference, because YOU ARE living them daily, observable to everyone around you. So, WHAT IS your belief system?
THE BUCK STOPS AT THE TOP. As the old adage says, “As are the leaders, so go the people” (from Isaiah 9:16), we will examine upper ranks first—leaders. In this world of people, there are shepherds and sheep. We know that sheep do not drive shepherds, but that shepherds lead sheep. Therefore, the following sections will examine leaders more than followers.
READING MIRRORS. When I was a public school music teacher, I taught classroom music to every class K-12 across a series of buildings: elementary, middle school, and senior high. Different classes came to my music room period after period, day after day, and week after week for general music classes. When the students walked in my room, I could see in their behaviors, attitudes, motivations, emotions, group demeanor, and achievements or failures, the sum total reflection of their regular classroom teachers. The students were a mirror image of the beliefs and attitudes their regular teachers thought and spoke over them. Mirror images of their parent(s) and family life as well. Whatever positives the regular teachers operated, they were evident, as well as whatever negatives. Unspoken thoughts are as equally powerful as spoken. After being there a couple of decades, one day I expressed this aloud in a teacher training seminar and there was dead silence across the entire room. This is my thirty-fifth year of teaching and I have no difficulties with reading “mirrors.” In these sections, we are going to examine various beliefs.
Pastor, if I walked into your church and “read” your congregation, since you are their leader, what would I see regarding your belief system over them?
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(1) Introduction
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(2) Your Paradigms
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(3) Bondage or Freedom
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(4) Gateway Skills
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(5) Teacher Accountability
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(6) Talking About vs. Doing
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(7) Student Accountability
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(8) Assessment
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(9) Bury Dead Tradition
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(10) Teaching vs. Learning
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(11) Teachers' Three Phases
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(12) Excellence is NOT a Goal
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(13) My Teaching Limits Were Their Learning Limits
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(14) Unlearning Creates Success
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(15) Pioneers vs. Settlers
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(16) Real and Lasting Learning
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(17) Problems With Memory
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(18) Ownership Creates Success
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(19) Not Perfect, But Honest
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(20) Take Risks and Give Away Control
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(21) Out of a Job
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(22) KCAASE and Proverbs 24
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(23) Responding vs. Reacting
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(24) Only When Performed
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(25) A Supervisor's Vision
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(26) Glimpses Into the Spiritual
Your Belief System and Your Church:
(27) One Reason Alone