‘If you want to bring fundamental change to people’s lives and behavior,
a change that will persist and influence others, you need to create a community
around them where those new beliefs could be practiced, expressed and nurtured’.
As identified in the book ‘Choose the Life’ by Bill Hull
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Community can create the environment where
change can happen. The community can be with one other person or a group. In
this environment a trained leader or mentor is required to teach what has been
learned to someone who wants to learn.
Trust and integrity are both necessary
for this to occur and the student has to be willing to dedicate him or herself
to learning and to becoming a disciple. As part of the process the new disciple
must be willing to dedicate him or herself to finding and teaching another
person who is willing to learn and then to teach someone else and on and on.
This process can be summarized by a
statement I heard some time ago in an organization we were involved in: ‘Teachers
teaching teachers to teach who teach teachers to teach’.
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