2011-07-08T10:19:05-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/influence/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/your-aroma-is-there-longer-than-you-are-6390 2011-07-08T10:19:05-05:00 Your aroma? Yeah, it's there longer than you are, and the aroma that you should be leaving is the finest of fragrances. You should leave behind you a trail of joy, and peace, and blessing, making people feel important and listened to, cared about. Actually, what you should leave behind is the essence of Jesus. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/two-legged-bait-6367 2011-06-13T13:25:32-05:00 What changes do your friends and family see in you that would make them want to have an explanation for those changes? That's how you draw men and women to Christ. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/how-your-life-and-your-death-can-really-count-6198 2010-10-13T10:34:14-05:00 if you haven't lived to show Christ to people, your death really can't lift Him up. The death of a man or a woman who has really lived passionately for Christ can have such incredible meaning - helping others be in heaven with you. But a life not lived for Christ just can't have that kind of meaning. Death destroys every reason for living but one - living for Jesus and what matters to Him. http://truewoman.com/?id=1105 2010-09-08T12:11:28-05:00 "That I could be useful to God in my circle of influence was beyond my comprehension . . ." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hindrances/the-danger-of-a-drifting-light-6168 2010-09-01T10:25:50-05:00 For the sake of the people who are watching your light, you can't afford to drift into negativity, or criticism, or cynicism, or some rebellious attitude. They'll follow you there. If you drift into selfishness, or carelessness about what you look at or listen to. If you drift into gossip, discouragement, compromise, it won't be just you going there. You're affecting other people's course every day. Don't lead them toward the rocks. You've got to hold your position. You're the light! http://truewoman.com/?id=1204 2010-08-31T16:33:57-05:00 The Bible says that bad company ruins good morals. Do you and your friends influence each other negatively or positively? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/your-lingering-aroma-3342 2009-09-22T14:09:53-05:00 It could even be that your positive actions are actually cancelled out by the stinky atmosphere you bring - the stress, the insensitivity, and the criticism you create while you're doing all those good things. You can be doing great stuff and have a lousy attitude and drag people down. What people are supposed to experience by being around you is "the fragrance of the knowledge of Jesus." http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2019:1-6&version=NIV 2009-08-07T12:35:41-05:00 Who do you influence? In 1 Samuel we read about how David was sentenced to death by King Saul. Because of the influence David and Jonathan, Saul's son, had on each other and their friendship, Jonathan conspired with David for a way to keep him alive. http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters-blog/eternal-perspectives/a-new-set-of-lenses-part-3-of-4 2009-07-08T17:12:43-05:00 Take a moment to think about where God has placed you. Who is within your sphere of influence that God wants you to reach with His message? Whose eternity will hang in the balance unless you, like Levi, use the influence God has given you to get those people to Jesus? http://www.hutchcraft.com/blogs/rons-blogs/how-to-turn-hearts 2008-08-11T16:12:05-05:00 We should present Jesus in such a way that it makes a person feel loved, not condemned; bigger, not smaller. That's how Jesus treated people. And it's Jesus you represent. If it's important to do those things when votes are at stake, how much more important is it do it when lives are at stake?