Comments on: relational velcro https://kenhensley.com/relational-velcro/ Ramblings on life, faith, and other things. Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:55:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Dustin https://kenhensley.com/relational-velcro/#comment-2081 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:55:21 +0000 http://www.kenhensley.com/?p=1158#comment-2081 (2 of 2)
In either case, the types of interactions that will have a lasting effect are those in which the leader speaks directly into the follower’s life. Jesus accomplished this most effectively through the use of parables. A parable gives life by encouraging those who hear and perceive its message with joy or by convicting those who hear with a desire to change. It can also fall on deaf ears and curse those with closed minds and hearts who refuse it.

Thus, the power of a leaders’ parable is conveyed in the spoken word but made complete in the interaction of the follower with the words. The leader desires to bless all who hear their message, but the choice to be blessed by the leader’s words resides with the follower. The reason followers choose one over the other is based on trust.

In personal interactions, maybe the sound of velcro ripping is the sound of broken trust…?

]]> By: Dustin https://kenhensley.com/relational-velcro/#comment-2080 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:54:50 +0000 http://www.kenhensley.com/?p=1158#comment-2080 Ken,

From a leader-follower interaction standpoint, the transformational interaction and connection you speak of happens when leader speaks into the life of the follower. They may do so with genuine compliments or criticisms, which first require listening and perceiving, keeping in mind that not all criticisms are negative.

In the case of Jesus, the leader may accomplish both through the same story or parable, leaving how the message is received to the mind of the follower. Leaders today can wrap criticisms with compliments, for example, in attempt to make a criticism come across more positively to create a lasting effect or they may also take the time to craft stories that illustrate the lesson to be conveyed with hopes that the follower will draw the applicable conclusions themselves… (1 of 2)

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