We Must not Overlook the How as we Attempt to Inspire People to get involved

Too often marketplace leaders champion what needs to be done, or emphasize that something must be done but does not explain how to do what needs to be done. 
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This is the hour that we need to help people understand 

• The How 
• The What 
• And the What Next 

We understand the culture is off balance. We understand everything that should be right side up is upside down. We understand that everything that faces forward now seems backward. But oftentimes we (as citizens) don't know what to do. 

So as leaders (anyone who has the heart to inform others is a leader) must ask how can we help people know the answers to their questions? 

Our role as leaders is to: 

• Understand the problem 
• Acknowledge it 
• Confront it: inform on it, education others on it, and then 
• Help people to see a way forward
• Build towards a solution 

So many citizens right now are seeing the horror of a broken society but they do not know how to move forward. 

The job is for us who have been in the arena a long time can see better a way forward. It does not mean we have all the answers but it does mean we can help lay the stepping stones and point people in the right direction. 
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A SIMPLE GAME ​

I was recently playing a game with a young family member. Part of the game required that you draw cards and use the cards to slowly piece together the pathway to get home. The roll of the dice and your choices allowed you to choose the steps.

In a similar way, we serve a Big God Who by Providential Wisdom influences the outcomes and directions - this is truth. But, by His own Divine freedom loving  but oftentimes, the success of our future is based on our choices. 

And the fruit we see before us in America stinks. We must come to terms with: if we don't like it, then we should not be satisfied to allow this to be the standard moving forward. We cannot expect the next generation to change things (how can they if they have not known what is right and true from us as a culture teaching them) - we must start to lead from where we are at. 
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SO WHERE DO WE START ​

This is the hour we need to help people understand the How - and we have to go back to the basics. 

1. Identify what it is you want to fix (families? Education?) 
2. Identify the local connection
3. Identify the root problem 
4. Start asking God and researching to say "what can I do?" 

So for example, let's say your heart is broken over the educational system. How we got here didn't happen overnight. So let's start on a piece of it to put it back together again: 

• Identify the local connection to the bigger topic: perhaps your local public school, or a summer sports league in need of loving adults to help out, or a kid next door that needs a tutor 
• Identify the root issue of the scenario: kids can't read, or kids don't have  enough adults willing to be mentors or you know a kid struggling in school and it's hurting their self esteem
  
• Then find a way you can serve in that situation: volunteer to go to the local public school to aid teachers in teaching the little ones to read (be a teacher's aide or offer to let the kids read to you so you can assist), or build relationships with the right people and see if you can offer an after school program or a summer Bible camp, invite kids over from the neighborhood to spend time with your family and "have fun working on projects" together, etc
  

We have to identify the way forward and we have to help point people in the right direction, starting in our own hearts. We have to help people know "HOW" to I move forward from this cesspool to a more hopeful landscape? 

• I like this piece that highlights options (Family Research Council) 
• I have listed steps here 
• And watch my publications or previous handouts for some very basic articles coming up on the how, the how, the how for anything relating to civics 

In this hour, we cannot save the world but we can do our part to influence our local community and all of us doing that around the nation can ultimately change a nation. 

Thanks for caring enough to read this …