Another title for this post could be "A Few Good Men." I have learned a bit in the past few years of church planting. There is a difference in testing/training and trusting. Testing and training comes with a learning curve. What I mean to say is, you expect failure quite a bit. With that it is kind of easier to deal with sloppy results, because you basically factor in helping with a project or essentially bagging an assignment from another to do it yourself. The idea is to see where individuals perform so as to improve excellence or proficiency. I am learning that I have often mixed the two up (testing and trusting). When placing full trust in an untested individual, the proverb written above plays out in truth. Many times I have fully trusted in people that I thought were truly faithful and when that proved to not be true, wow did it hurt. Perhaps it was my fault? At least a bit. The scripture basically tells us to not put faith in an unfaithful person, especially in an important matter...unless we are a glutton for punishment (or a toothache :) . What I am taking from this scripture is to asses what are the expectations that I put on people who are around me. For those of us in leadership training and development, I am learning that to release responsibility and task to a responsible person, what a JOY!!! So, the battle becomes, "Who is faithful?". My focus a bit now is to make sure that what I am assigning is to a proven and tested individual, or else, I should expect a learning curve (fit with a lot of clean ups). Knowing that will help me and my teeth and ankles.
Stu.
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