Comments on: The Encore Effect by Mark Sanborn http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/the-encore-effect-by-mark-sanborn/ thoughts and reflections on daily life Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:13:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: spaghettipie http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/the-encore-effect-by-mark-sanborn/#comment-4085 spaghettipie Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:32:23 +0000 http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/?p=797#comment-4085 MS -Thanks so much for stopping by. It means a lot. A - I think you can be remarkable without notoriety. Certainly there had to be some of the very Jews you mention that were remarkable - who lived out who God called them to be, who pointed others toward him, albeit within the confines of slavery. What I appreciate about this book is that we as Christians somehow feel like we can "perform" mediocre-ly in "other" areas of our lives - say for example, work - failing to recognize that our whole lives reflect Christ. All of our actions are to be submitted to God's standards, not just our "spiritual" lives. Does that make sense? MS -Thanks so much for stopping by. It means a lot.

A – I think you can be remarkable without notoriety. Certainly there had to be some of the very Jews you mention that were remarkable – who lived out who God called them to be, who pointed others toward him, albeit within the confines of slavery. What I appreciate about this book is that we as Christians somehow feel like we can “perform” mediocre-ly in “other” areas of our lives – say for example, work – failing to recognize that our whole lives reflect Christ. All of our actions are to be submitted to God’s standards, not just our “spiritual” lives. Does that make sense?

]]> By: The Key to Remarkable Performance | HighCallingBlogs.com http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/the-encore-effect-by-mark-sanborn/#comment-4073 The Key to Remarkable Performance | HighCallingBlogs.com Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:12:58 +0000 http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/?p=797#comment-4073 [...] Howard, aka spaghetti pie, posted an interview with Mark Sanborne last week about his new book The Encore Effect. Here’s a teaser of some of the great things [...] [...] Howard, aka spaghetti pie, posted an interview with Mark Sanborne last week about his new book The Encore Effect. Here’s a teaser of some of the great things [...]

]]> By: Amy http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/the-encore-effect-by-mark-sanborn/#comment-4062 Amy Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:42:09 +0000 http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/?p=797#comment-4062 Hmm. I'm just not convinced - but perhaps that's because I haven't read the book. On the surface, it sounds to me a little bit like Western ideals of personal acheivement wrapped in a Christian package. I'm just not sure that God is concerned whether we are remarkable. It reminds me of a speaker I heard a few years ago who said that we read Exodus and imagine ourselves as Moses (and all the life applications that follow); we never imagine ourselves as one of the thousands of nameless Jews who lived and died as slaves in Egypt for generations before Moses. Yet those Jews were just as much an important part of God's plan as Moses was - but they weren't certainly weren't remarkable. I recently read a post by Mark Galli that offers a different perspective and some food for thought: http://www.markgalli.com/galliblog/?p=124. Hmm. I’m just not convinced – but perhaps that’s because I haven’t read the book. On the surface, it sounds to me a little bit like Western ideals of personal acheivement wrapped in a Christian package. I’m just not sure that God is concerned whether we are remarkable. It reminds me of a speaker I heard a few years ago who said that we read Exodus and imagine ourselves as Moses (and all the life applications that follow); we never imagine ourselves as one of the thousands of nameless Jews who lived and died as slaves in Egypt for generations before Moses. Yet those Jews were just as much an important part of God’s plan as Moses was – but they weren’t certainly weren’t remarkable.

I recently read a post by Mark Galli that offers a different perspective and some food for thought: http://www.markgalli.com/galliblog/?p=124.

]]> By: Mark Sanborn http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/the-encore-effect-by-mark-sanborn/#comment-4056 Mark Sanborn Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:07:45 +0000 http://spaghettipie.wordpress.com/?p=797#comment-4056 Thanks for the nice post. We've built out an extensive website with some free resources if your readers are interested: www.TheEncoreEffect.com Thanks for the nice post. We’ve built out an extensive website with some free resources if your readers are interested: http://www.TheEncoreEffect.com

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