1. Pray that God will give you ideas while you’re in conversation with people.
2. Learn to value silence and give people a chance to respond to your hint without your blathering all
   over it.
3. Go cautiously and gently. Many people today don’t like to be pushed.
4. If you don’t get very far with your hints, you can always be a bit more direct. But even then be gentle and friendly. And always leave the door open.
5. Listen carefully and be ready to stop hinting and share the gospel when the door opens.
6. If you share Christ with someone who doesn’t make a decision right away, try to get some contact information so you can talk again or at least send some material that will keep your listener asking questions and wanting more.
7. If someone does accept Christ, find a way to continue discipling the new believer or connecting him or her with a local church.

See entire article by Littleton here.

“Without the discipline of community, solitude
degenerates into self-absorption and isolation;
without the discipline of solitude, community
generates into codependency and enmeshment…
the community of faith is where we
learn the language of love.”

from Journeymen by Kent Ira Groff

HT: Leadership Transformations

See it here. Compare with Driscoll on stress here.

The “turning the world upside down” faith (or turning the world the right way up) was not just a matter of adopting new ideas, joining a new organization, and singing up for a new vision. Nor was it primarily a matter of fresh experience. Rather it was uprooting and upending of conventional structures of life, as they know it, to live in a new way in Christ. As T. R. Glove declared about the the early church: “The Christian ‘out-lived’ the pagan, ‘out-died’ him and ‘out-thought’ him…He beat him hollow in living. Preaching opens up new ways of living and dying. This compliment unintentionally expresses how preacher/leaders should be seen–as spiritual agitators, subversive pastors, un-settlers of old ways, and embodiers of the new Way.

~ Michael Quicke, 360 Degree Leadership: preaching to transform congregations