Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Steve Jobs’s Dare Theme for this Week: Putting Purpose in Your Life Tuesday, February 26, 2002
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January/February 200251Steve Jobs’s DareTheme for this Week: Putting Purpose in Your Life Steve Jobs’s Dare Theme for this Week: Putting Purpose in Your Life Tuesday, February 26
Key Bible Verse: For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son (Romans 8:29). Bonus Reading:Romans 8:28–39
What caused Pepsi Cola president John Sculley’s dramatic shift to become president and CEO of Apple computer?
Sculley, with years of experience in marketing beverages, was one rung from the top of well-established Pepsi. He’d no idea how to revive sagging computer sales at Apple, struggling to survive.
Sculley describes meeting with Steve Jobs, the brilliant but impulsive Apple founder, who’d flown to New York to recruit him. “Are you going to come?” Jobs persisted.
“Steve,” Sculley says he replied, “I love what you’re doing. … But it just doesn’t make sense.” Loath to forfeit pensions and deferred compensation, he told Jobs he’d require $1 million annually plus a million each for a signing bonus and severance pay!
Stunned at first, Jobs, recovering, said Apple would pay that kind of money. But again Sculley demurred.
Exasperated, Jobs asked, “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
“I had no answer,” writes Sculley. “It simply knocked the wind out of me.” By making him think like a visionary, Jobs eroded all his resistance.
—Gordon MacDonald in Forging a Real-World Faith
My Response: I’ve been challenged to think outside my employment box by …
Thought to Apply: Outstanding people have one thing: an absolute sense of mission. —Zig Ziglar (motivational speaker)
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