I have always been very keen on issues about healthy living and I have read alot about keeping healthy in a wholistic way. It’s common knowledge among my friends that I am well informed on matters of health and they consult me frequently. I fear that when I am finally conferred the Dmin degree, many might confuse me for a medical doctor. There is common saying in our community that a doctor cannot treat himself and it seems true in my case because I find myself violating the rules of healthy living once in a while, especially in not getting enough sleeping hours. the need to have enough sleep, eating the right diet and exercising as part of getting organised to learn therefore caught my attention and I could not help thinking what a paradox it is, that we have to keep a balance in the midst of lots of pressures of life.<\/p>\n
Its a common thing for me to read through the night in order to cope with my leadership, family, social and studying responsibilities because they are all important. Having to keep healthy to keep healthy in order to maximize my learning can only add to the pressures I have to cope with, yet I have to keep a balance as a leader and be a role model to the leaders that I am mentoring in the church and in our ministry organization, Missions of Hope International. I appreciate the wholistic approach that Rowntree takes in explaining how to study and learn effectively, and have to take responsibility as a leader to keep the right balance and maximize my learning in this doctoral program without compromising my health and my other responsibilities.<\/p>\n
I thought that I had learnt alot through the previous books that we have read but I realise that I have to increase my appetite for learning and arm myself with the right attitude to learn. As Christian leaders in our different capacities, I believe its important for us to keep a good balance to be effective in our leadership responsibilities and increase our influence in our communities. How many times do we find ourselves taking things for granted only to find ourselves undermining our leadership, because our lack of knowledge in certain aspects like personal financial management make financially embarrassed. I find myself dealing with issues of finances among leaders and church members that could be avoided if we were well equipped with the necessary knowledge, that is all in scripture, just like Hosea 4:6 says that my people perish for lack of knowledge. Some of the most common issues I encounter are debts, theft of church money, manipulation of church members to give in church, misinterpretation of scriptures for personal gain, and more.\u00a0 I am glad that we are being equipped with the right knowledge to succeed in our doctorate program but I am all the more inspired to pursue my dissertation topic on financial literacy and avail this knowledge to many. I am passionate about this topic because of my personal bad experience with debts, despite of my financial background as a CPA and the many cases of financial stress I encounter in and out of\u00a0 the church. My financial reprieve in overcoming debts and knowing how to manage finances was a journey of a long search for answers, which to my surprise I did not find them in financial books but in scripture. How I pray that as we learn how to study and apply the same with diligence, that we will seek to understand God’s word and rightly declare it like workmen that need not be ashamed. I am persuaded that just like we are learning so much from reading Rowntree’s book, Learn How to Study, I should be able to research and write a\u00a0 biblically acceptable and missiologically applicable financial literacy book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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