When it comes to literature evangelism, you must be as timely and work as hard as you would if you were working an hourly job with a supervisor standing over your shoulder. You cannot expect to succeed if you bring any less dedication and discipline than is demanded at a fast food joint.
Yet merely being a good employee is not good enough to be a successful literature evangelist.
A successful LE must be an entrepreneur: a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
When you are employed by a company, it has already found people and organizations that value their products and services. When you are an entrepreneur, you are the one looking for and creating "opportunities that are hidden within trouble." (Caldwell & Kallestad, Entrepreneurial Faith, p. 61) This means that you're unemployed until you add the kind of value to people and businesses that generates tangible expressions of their appreciation.
You must pray, watch, and listen to what's going on around you. You need to ask yourself, "What are the challenges people are facing that you can help them overcome? What pain can you help them relieve? What advantages can you provide that will help them reach their goals?" You've got to show that you're interested in the concerns of others and come up with creative ways to add value to their lives.
You can't wait for a boss to line up your work for the day and provide you with a check list. God has provided us with an exhaustive checklist. There's always work to be done: comfort the grieving, counsel the broken family, intervene when you see someone on a destructive path, help employers lower health care costs through wellness seminars, help families build stronger bonds simply by reading character building stories at bedtime, etc.
Get to it!
Yet merely being a good employee is not good enough to be a successful literature evangelist.
A successful LE must be an entrepreneur: a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
When you are employed by a company, it has already found people and organizations that value their products and services. When you are an entrepreneur, you are the one looking for and creating "opportunities that are hidden within trouble." (Caldwell & Kallestad, Entrepreneurial Faith, p. 61) This means that you're unemployed until you add the kind of value to people and businesses that generates tangible expressions of their appreciation.
You must pray, watch, and listen to what's going on around you. You need to ask yourself, "What are the challenges people are facing that you can help them overcome? What pain can you help them relieve? What advantages can you provide that will help them reach their goals?" You've got to show that you're interested in the concerns of others and come up with creative ways to add value to their lives.
You can't wait for a boss to line up your work for the day and provide you with a check list. God has provided us with an exhaustive checklist. There's always work to be done: comfort the grieving, counsel the broken family, intervene when you see someone on a destructive path, help employers lower health care costs through wellness seminars, help families build stronger bonds simply by reading character building stories at bedtime, etc.
Get to it!
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