Experience Is What You Get Right After You Need It: Lessons Learned the Hard Way Never Waste Your Mistakes
We all make mistakes, and most of us make the same mistake several times. Learning from our mistakes is a lifelong process. Growing is often painful, but growing and learning are positive benefi ts of failure. We often learn very little from our successes. Instead, we learn what will work by trial and error. Great leaders learn what works by trying and failing. We should embrace failures and ask ourselves diffi cult questions rather than running away. The fi rst and most important question is, where did the idea originate? Was this a good idea? If so, why did it fail? What was my role in the failure, and what could I have done better? How did I respond to the failure, and what will I do differently next time? We must be courageous enough to ask these and other probing questions in the church community or whatever group setting is relevant to the circumstances. Finally, we must never allow ourselves to be defi ned by failure, recognizing that the ultimate failure is not trying.
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Experience Is What You Get Right After You Need It: Lessons Learned the Hard Way Never Waste Your Mistakes
We all make mistakes, and most of us make the same mistake several times. Learning from our mistakes is a lifelong process. Growing is often painful, but growing and learning are positive benefi ts of failure. We often learn very little from our successes. Instead, we learn what will work by trial and error. Great leaders learn what works by trying and failing. We should embrace failures and ask ourselves diffi cult questions rather than running away. The fi rst and most important question is, where did the idea originate? Was this a good idea? If so, why did it fail? What was my role in the failure, and what could I have done better? How did I respond to the failure, and what will I do differently next time? We must be courageous enough to ask these and other probing questions in the church community or whatever group setting is relevant to the circumstances. Finally, we must never allow ourselves to be defi ned by failure, recognizing that the ultimate failure is not trying.
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Experience Is What You Get Right After You Need It: Lessons Learned the Hard Way Never Waste Your Mistakes

Experience Is What You Get Right After You Need It: Lessons Learned the Hard Way Never Waste Your Mistakes

by John M Check Dmin
Experience Is What You Get Right After You Need It: Lessons Learned the Hard Way Never Waste Your Mistakes
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Experience Is What You Get Right After You Need It: Lessons Learned the Hard Way Never Waste Your Mistakes

by John M Check Dmin

Overview

We all make mistakes, and most of us make the same mistake several times. Learning from our mistakes is a lifelong process. Growing is often painful, but growing and learning are positive benefi ts of failure. We often learn very little from our successes. Instead, we learn what will work by trial and error. Great leaders learn what works by trying and failing. We should embrace failures and ask ourselves diffi cult questions rather than running away. The fi rst and most important question is, where did the idea originate? Was this a good idea? If so, why did it fail? What was my role in the failure, and what could I have done better? How did I respond to the failure, and what will I do differently next time? We must be courageous enough to ask these and other probing questions in the church community or whatever group setting is relevant to the circumstances. Finally, we must never allow ourselves to be defi ned by failure, recognizing that the ultimate failure is not trying.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798385054459
Publisher: WestBow Press
Publication date: 07/14/2025
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

John was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and raised in Tarboro. He graduated from
Piedmont International University and Dallas Theological Seminary with a master of arts in biblical studies. He graduated from Southeastern Seminary with master and doctor of divinity degrees.
John completed a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) unit through Wake Forest Baptist
Hospital at Nash General Hospital. John did post-graduate work at The Southeast Institute in Chapel Hill and post-graduate work through the Beeson Institute for Advanced Church
Leadership through Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.
He was on staff at Dallas Seminary from 1983 to 1988. While in Dallas, John founded Dallas Christian Video and produced several educational and religious videos, including an animated children’s series based on a family of bears called the Bear Hugs.
John has served churches in Ohio and Texas and was ordained in 1992. John has served several churches in North
Carolina, including those in Wilson, Rocky Mount, Beaufort, Kitty Hawk, and Manteo.
John retired early to accept a position at NC Wesleyan College. In 2018, his position at the college was eliminated due to budget cuts. He was contacted by a small church and hired as an interim minister. After they found their “permanent”
minister, he accepted a part-time role in a tiny church. He traveled forty-fi ve miles to preach and serve this congregation for two years. He planned on staying at this church for several more years when his phone rang again.
He returned to the fi rst church he served in the 1990s, which he continues to serve.
He has been married to Sheryl for over forty-fi ve years and has one daughter, Nicole.
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