Lead With Love

As an RA in college, my primary job was building community. One of the most important aspects of doing so is cultivating an atmosphere of mutual trust, care, and accountability.

To do that successfully, you have to truly live your values. A fellow RA, Ivan Ibarra, coined the phrase for us: "Don't just talk about it, be about it."

You can't just tell people "no partying" one night if you're going to go out drinking the next night. You can't tell folks to study if they've never seen you open a book. You can't put out the fires of gossip if you yourself partake in the same practice.

Don't just talk about it, be about it.

Or, in the words of my yoga teacher trainer, "Don't be full of s***."

I think about this often in terms of the Christian community. Are we truly living our values? Are being about it as much as we are talking about it?

When I think of the Christian values that I want to be about, I think of 1 Corinthians 13.

Today we dive into that well-know passage of "Love is patient, love is kind..." and how it teaches out how to not just talk about our faith and values, but to be about it.