Introduction

“Your number one priority in the Lord’s work is your family.” –Gordon MacDonald

“The View from Eighty” is a synopsis of Gordon MacDonald’s discernment today. What are the 15 things I’ve observed in myself and others, that make you either a success or failure in life and ministry, fulfilling all that God invites?  In this episode we cover the first 7 items:

1. Prioritize the most significant people in your world;
2. Never (ever!) stop growing; stay responsive to fresh ways and ideas that sustain your physical and mental health; ask great questions; enrich your wisdom and spiritual life;
3. Be more a priest and less a preacher; bless people and don’t bully them;
4. The time will come when you will have to relinquish titles and privileges and slip into obscurity;
5. Anticipate those occasions when you may suffer, fail, doubt, face conflict, and experience loss;
6. Be trustworthy and reliable, a person who keeps his/her word; don’t make promises you can’t keep; and
7. Be a spiritual father/mother to teachable people who may someday inherit your responsibilities.

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