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| I found bunny petting for Easter in several WELS ads, including Patterson and the future professor for the Asian mini-seminary. |
The odious Don Patterson Network has been a source of scandal and amusement for some time. The parsons who hang out at gimmick conferences are easy to spot. They spot the latest fad and adopt it.
Church Growth clergy like Patterson will hold an Easter service in the cemetery and publicize Easter egg hunts and live bunny rabbits for petting.
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| Ski and Glende took "live bunnies" a bit too far. |
Patterson and Team Kudu got involved in coaching - for money. Shouldn't a man who can hunt the dangerous kudu deer afford to share his wisdom without charging for it? No.
The coaching fad has an add-on fad - Coaching for Strengths. No surprise, this has Fuller Seminary connections, because Gallup Polling is involved. Fuller has had cozy relationships with Gallup because the school covets piles of facts and figures, since the school has no use for the Word of God, which they teach as fallible and ineffective.
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| My corporate guru tells me, "There are 50 leadership quotes, and they just keep circulating them, year after year." |
Gallup has a Strength Center, and I found a consultant who was already certified as an executive coach with the John Maxwell Team. I had the misfortune of hearing the Methodist minister John Maxwell - tanned too deeply, grinning too much - announce his wisdom as if on Mt. Zion.
Here is your Clifton Strengths Support kit for only 50 bucks.
So books are being derived from the strengths studies of Donald Clifton, an education psychologist.
Under Clifton, Gallup expanded beyond public opinion polls, entering the management consulting business.[5] Gallup consulted with companies on ways to improve their businesses by honing in on their employees' strengths.[4]In 1999, Clifton created the online assessment tool Clifton StrengthsFinder (now known as CliftonStrengths) that focuses on 34 themes that make up the user's personality.[5][10][11] He co-authored the 2001 book Now, Discover Your Strengths with Marcus Buckingham, offering advice on determining employees' strengths and using those qualities for success at work. In 2007, the book was updated by Tom Rath[12] and called StrengthsFinder 2.0, which is among Amazon's 20 bestselling books of all-time.[13] Gallup's books helped grow the company's consulting division's revenue from $2 million in 1998 to $50 million in 2001. In 2002, the American Psychological Association honored Clifton with a lifetime achievement award as "the father of strengths-based psychology and the grandfather of positive psychology".[4]After retiring as chairman of Gallup, Clifton was chairman of Gallup's International Research and Education Center and senior archivist of its World Leader Study.[6]Following his death, Gallup and the Clifton Foundation donated $30 million to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln to create the Don Clifton Strengths Institute, focusing on early identification and development of future entrepreneurs.[14]
Do you see the alchemist's wand at work? If only we could look at all our strengths, we could have a strong, growing sect instead of a weak, insolvent one!
Flashback - that was supposed to happen with Five-Alarm Fire Marriages, a fad so hot it burnt itself to ashes in a few months.
But before that - the Spiritual Gifts Inventory, straight outta Fuller Seminary. If we could get all our members to look at their spiritual gifts, we could have a strong, growing sect instead of a weak, insolvent one.
Oh! Oh! I remember another one - Management by Objectives, fathered by Peter Drucker. If only we could identify and write down our dreams, our goals, and how we would reach those Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely goals, we could be a strong, growing sect instead of a weak, insolvent one.
Has anyone noticed Fuller Seminary canceling their expansion plans? Hahahaha!
1 Corinthians 3:6-8 King James Version (KJV)
6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
