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Based on the following verse, I sent out the following message–
“The faithful love of the LORD never ends!
His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness;
His mercies begin afresh each morning."(Lamentations 3:22, 23 NLT)
“Happy New Year to the Mighty Men of God!! You know, if His Love and Mercy are new every morning, it's gotta be especially true of this first new morning of the new year! May you continually experience His Great Faithfulness all year long!!!"
I also posted this as a note on YouVersion!
So as I'm finishing my first entry of the new year in my prayer journal after I listened and read Genesis 15-21 – doing my best to get a head start on the Bible in a year goal – I figured I'd also shoot out a blog post for those who aren't on my 30 Mighty Men list (yet)! Hopefully my wife and two boys will stay sound asleep until I finish this!!!
I want to share just some techniques in how I work out the system of the 30 Mighty Men. And you don't have to consider it a system, I just do because I like systems – as you who read my posts back in August found out! Hopefully in the coming weeks I'll be able to write more about how the 30 Mighty Men concept can work, and maybe more men will take this idea on board and build their own lists…
This technique involves “Level 1 or Level 2" comms sent out by email or text message, Level 1 being mass Communication, and Level 2: individual messages. (For more on ELC – Elevating the Level of Communication, read some of my other blog posts on “communication" – specifically the “more" tab on the top of the blog) I plan to re-organize these lists and do my best to introduce those who are on the list to each other. I think it's more effective if I send a message to 3 guys who all know each other, that way someone can reply-to-all knowing exactly who he's replying to. Many times I see one person write a mass text reply to all and then someone else on that list asks “who is this?" I don't think that should happen…
If I am going to use the mass email technique to blast a message to 30 Mighty Men (or more) I've also found the BCC method useful so people who reply are forced to take it to Level 2 – meaning they can only write to me. This is done by sending a message to yourself and BCC'ing everyone else. I only do this when there's more than a dozen or so recipients, when I know most of them don't know most of the others, and when I don't think the message is best suited for ongoing discussion. If any of those three conditions are not met, I'll just put some folks in the “To" block and “CC" others I think might be interested or willing to throw their 2 cents in as well…
That's probably enough for now, but I'll just add that daily messages are probably the worst because the only person that really wants to hear from you daily is your wife or your mom! Ha! And I did develop 3 separate lists which I planned to send 1 message a week splitting them up Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but I haven't stuck to that very well. Sometimes I send out 3 a week, sometimes just 1, but mixing it up seems to work best.
Future posts I'll hope to focus on how this last year has gone and what content the messages generally contain!
Here's to keeping it elevated in the new year!
Peace,
Adam
Full disclosure: I haven't read the workbook pictured, just found the photo and thought it was cool. But I'm sure it's got some good stuff, so maybe I'll buy it! (next year of course because another new year's goal is to finish all the books I bought last year before buying any more this year!!!)