{"id":507,"date":"2015-03-24T03:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T07:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:21","slug":"a-leaders-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/24\/a-leaders-job\/","title":{"rendered":"A Leader&#8217;s Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Dave Ramsey&#8217;s book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Entreleadership<\/span> I read the following:\u00a0&#8220;It is leadership&#8217;s job to continually shine a spotlight on the goal and remove any distractions.&#8221;\u00a0That being SO true, let me shine a little light on what we&#8217;re trying to accomplish at New Day (i.e. the goal).<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>We are in the disciple-development business and our product is changed lives<\/strong>\u00a0(Christlike people). In accordance with Matthew 28:19-20 we:<\/p>\n<p>1. MAKE disciples (we help people become followers of Jesus &#8211; \u201cgo and make disciples\u201d v.19)<\/p>\n<p>2. MARK disciples (we mark people\u00a0as followers of Jesus through water baptism &#8211; \u201cbaptizing them\u201d v.19)<\/p>\n<p>3. MATURE disciples (help people grow spiritually &#8211; \u201cteaching them\u201d v.20)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0God help us to remove any distractions that come along as we seek to fulfill this commission of Christ!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dave Ramsey&#8217;s book Entreleadership I read the following:\u00a0&#8220;It is leadership&#8217;s job to continually shine a spotlight on the goal and remove any distractions.&#8221;\u00a0That being SO true, let me shine a little light on what we&#8217;re trying to accomplish at New Day (i.e. the goal). We are in the disciple-development business and our product is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-leadership","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike","author_link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/author\/mike\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}