The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
Most leaders do not avoid feedback. They avoid the reaction they predict the feedback will produce. You have already played the conversation out four times. You know how their face will change. So the conversation never happens, and you quietly route work around the person — at a cost to them, to the team, and to your own integrity.
What’s Really Going On Here
Kim Scott’s Radical Candor names the trap: when you care personally but will not challenge directly, what feels like kindness is actually “ruinous empathy” — and it costs the person their growth. Scripture goes deeper. Paul instructs the spiritual to restore the one caught in transgression, bearing one another’s burdens and fulfilling the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:1–2) Restoration is the goal. The motive is the law of Christ — which is love.
A 4-line restoration opener, CHEW-shaped:
- Clarity. “I owe you a conversation I have been avoiding.”
- Hear. Name the observable and its impact, no labels: “Here is what I am seeing.”
- Exchange. Restoration-side: “Here is who God says you are in Christ — and what I am hoping to see Him keep forming in you.”
- Walk. Hand them the mic: “What is true that I am not yet seeing?”
How God’s Love Reshapes This
The God who absorbed our worst response in Christ — and still moved toward us — frees a leader to risk a hard conversation. You are not bringing it to break the person. You are bringing it because God’s love broke through to you on the other side of a conversation you were also afraid to have. You are a steward of restoration, not an executioner.
Exchange
If I really believed God’s love is the love that absorbed my worst response in Christ — and still moved toward me — how would that change what I am feeling, and what I am believing about God, myself, and others?
Walk
Pick the one person you have been managing around. Book the 30 minutes today. Use the four lines. If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
Whose growth is God’s love freeing you to risk a conversation for — because His love has already absorbed your worst on the other side of a conversation you were just as afraid to have?
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