1. Growing Deep Devotions
Engaging the Community:
Modeling Integrity

2. Growing Deep Capabilities

3. Growing Deep Capabilities

4. 1. Integrity is about alignment.
2. Integrity is about wholeness.
3. Integrity comes from a
humble self assurance.

5. Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer Peter 3:10-12

6. What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared with what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
C.S. Lewis
Integrity is an ecosystem.
Michael Leunig
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
Proverbs 11:3

7. Was he a pig-headed German or a person of integrity?
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God.
Was he a pig-headed German or a person of integrity?

8. Growing Deep Devotions
Engaging the Community:
Listening and Understanding

9. Growing Deep Capabilities

10. Deep listening and
understanding

11. Empathy
Graciousness

12. My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. James 1:19

13. “There is a Ministry of Listening”
“Listening can be a greater service than speaking”
The most famous Lutheran of the 20th Century, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote this in “Life Together”

14. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life.“
“The person
who can no longer listen to his brother or sister will soon be no longer listening to God either; they will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God too.
This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life.“

15. How are you going to do it?
Give an example of where you felt you practiced deep listening? What were the results?
Think about a situation today or over the next week where you want to bring deep listening?
How are you going to do it?

16. Listen for understanding
Listen to learn
Listen for understanding
rather than agreement
Ask powerful questions

17. The most important thing in communication is hearing what is not said.
Peter Drucker
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix

18. Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker
Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.
Sue Patton Thoele

19. Growing Deep Devotions
Engaging the Community:
Building Support

20. Growing Deep Capabilities

22. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life. Be very sure now, you who have been trained to a self-sufficient maturity, that you enter into a generous common life with those who have trained you, sharing all the good things that you have and experience. Galatians 6:5-6 The Message

23. Reflect on a time you shared an idea with colleagues that did not take off. Why did it not work and what did you need to do differently to gather a shared ownership for it?
How much freedom is there in your community to share ideas and build support for them? In what ways and in what places can you do this?

24. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.
By sharing and exchanging ideas, people will get to know each other and learn about their community. Linda Ashcroft
Tell me and I’ll forget.
Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom.
Brett Harris

25. Growing Deep Devotions
Engaging the Community:
Networking and Strategic Partnerships

26. Growing Deep Capabilities

27. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you.   In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. Philippians 1:2-5

29. Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS) https://www.alws.org.au/
LCA International Mission
Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS)

30. Think of all the partnerships your school is involved in through the teaching of your students? How can your partnership with God, the Gospel and the Church be made more explicit in your school setting, especially in your students’ learning?

31. Teresa of Avila, the 16th Century Carmelite mystic and reformer
“Christ has no body
but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.”

32. Produced in 2017 by Tim Jarick College Pastor Pacific Lutheran College Caloundra Qld