Before considering how to motivate people, we have to settle two important questions.
1) What is motivation in the Christian context? What does a motivated person look like?
The answer we give to these questions will absolutely limit and channel our efforts to motivate others. My suggested definition of motivation is:
People are motivated when they are convinced of the correctness and the urgency of Christian goals to the extent that they are eager to act, and keep acting, to reach those goals regardless of what others do or think.
A. Convincing people that our goals are right
Instruction
Goals include:
Persuasion
Modeling:
Discrediting Features of leadership:
Direct influence (Consider building a fire)
- Casting Vision
- Calling
- Challenging indirectly
- Your example
- Reading their response
Exhorting Positive Movement
- Develop different ways to encourage:
- Indirectly
- Publicly
- Mentioning details
- Reserve
- In writing
The Goal: