You are probably a maverick and just don't realize your true identity! Webster defines a maverick as someone who is a pioneer or an individual who does not go along with the group. History records many men and women who pioneered new areas and colored outside the lines of tradition and conformity.
Lee Iacocca was a maverick who came from the outside to reinvent Chrysler from the top down.
Mavericks meet opposition in their quest for the new and untried ways of doing things. When offering ideas or suggestions, you may have received some of the following responses.
* That's not the way we do things around here.
* Are you suggesting that what we are doing is wrong?
* We have always done it this way.* That can't be done.
* When you have been here as long as we have, you will understand that what you are suggesting is impossible.
Why are you meeting such opposition? It is because you are a maverick! Don't allow the pressure of a calcified routine to kill the maverick spirit inside you. Don't allow the opposition to cause you to be limited to coloring inside someone else's lines.The world is waiting for you to bring it out of a fading glory and into its finest hour. Be who you are! Be the maverick that the world is waiting for!
Don't think I've come to make life cozy. I've come to cut Make a sharp knife-cut between
Son and father, Daughter and mother, Bride and mother-in-law, cut through these cozy domestic arrangements and free you for God. Well-meaning family members can be your worst enemies.
Don't think I've come to make life cozy. I've come to cut Make a sharp knife-cut between
Son and father, Daughter and mother, Bride and mother-in-law, cut through these cozy domestic arrangements and free you for God. Well-meaning family members can be your worst enemies.
If you prefer father or mother over me,
You don't deserve me.
You don't deserve me.
If you prefer son or daughter over me,
You don't deserve me.
You don't deserve me.
"If you don't go all the way with me, through thick and thin,
you don't deserve me.
If your first concern is to look after yourself,
You’ll never find yourself.
You’ll never find yourself.
But if you forget about yourself and look to me,
You’ll find both yourself and me.
You’ll find both yourself and me.
"We are intimately linked in this harvest work.
Anyone who accepts what you do,
Accepts me, the One who sent you...
Accepts me, the One who sent you...
Anyone who accepts what I do,
Accepts my Father, who sent me.
Matthew 10:34-40 (The Message Translation)
My dear sister in Christ, Minister Tracy Curtis, Thank you so much for allowing me to share the word of encouragement your Bishop sent you.
Though I've always considered myself as a maverick, I will never quarrel about issues that are matters of opinion. Differences should not be feared or avoided, but accepted and handled with love. Don’t expect everyone, even in the best possible church, to agree on every subject. Through sharing ideas we can come to a fuller understanding of what the Bible teaches. Accept, listen to, and respect others. Differences of opinion need not cause division. They can be a source of learning and richness in our relationships.
All Christians are part of God’s family. Believers share a unity that runs even deeper than that of blood brothers and sisters. To "agree with one another," allow for "no divisions" and "be perfectly united in mind and thought" does not require everyone to believe exactly the same.
There is a difference between having opposing viewpoints and being divisive. A group of people will not completely agree on every issue, but they can work together harmoniously if they agree on what truly matters, Jesus Christ is Lord of all. In your church, speak and behave in a way that will reduce arguments and increase harmony. Petty differences should never divide Christians.
Words from Mrs. Vicenta Ventura Vazquez' only baby boy, now a wise young man but forever the middle child, the one she called, Andy.
Elder J. Andres Vazquez.
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