The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals
There is one meeting on your calendar this week where you already know you are going to talk too much. You will call it leadership. It is not.
Domination is not authority. It is anxiety in a suit.
That is the meeting the Father wants to reach today.
C.H.E.W. with Me
C — Clarity — The room you keep filling
Paul writes something extraordinary. “But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). Not we will have. Not we can access. We have it. Present tense. Right now.
The Christian professional who dominates the room is not lacking authority. They already have the mind of Christ. They just have not received it yet on the way in.
Domination is what the flesh reaches for when the mind of Christ has not landed in the chest. So the mouth fills the space instead.
H — Hear — The mind of Christ
The verse that has changed my meetings is John 17:23. “Loved them even as you loved me” (John 17:23). Because that is true when I sit down at the table, I do not need the room to confirm anything.
I do not need my point to land the loudest. I do not need every silence filled. I do not need my expertise re-established every twenty minutes.
The Father has already loved me as much as He loves Jesus. That was settled before the meeting started. So the meeting can be a place I lead from love, not a place I earn it.
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“Domination is not authority. It is anxiety in a suit.”
— The Daily CHEW™
E — Exchange — Because His love has already spoken
Because His love has already been given, how does the meeting change?
Because He loves me as much as He loves Jesus, I do not have to defend a decision I already made well.
Because He loves me as much as He loves Jesus, the silence in the room is not a threat.
Because He loves me as much as He loves Jesus, the quietest person at the table might have the sharpest thing to say, and I get to be the one who makes room for it.
The mind of Christ was not domination. It was the confidence to be quiet, to ask, to notice the person nobody was noticing, to let the truth land without forcing it.
Because God loves you as much as He loves Jesus, whose voice would you actually hear in the meeting today if the anxiety were not deciding for you?
W — Walk — The chair as your anchor
Anchor time: the moment your chair pulls up to the table. Before the meeting opens, say the verse. Then ask the question. Because He loves me as much as He loves Jesus, how does that change the next hour?
For me, that means one hard rule. I do not speak first in the first ten minutes. I ask instead. Then I listen. Then, if I speak, I speak from a mind that has already received, not one still trying to prove.
The mind of Christ was slow. It was patient. It did not need to win the room.
What is the anchor time before your next hard meeting where you could receive the verse and the question, so the mind you already have in Christ has actually landed before the meeting begins?
With you on the journey,
Ryan
CHEW on this today
Because God loves you as much as He loves Jesus, whose voice in the room today would you hear if the anxiety were not deciding for you?
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