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Do you think you need to have all the big answers?

Do you think you need to have all the big answers?

  • Posted on July 19, 2017
  • /Under On Q
Here’s a radio-minute that aired nationally this week on Q Place’s Walk the Way: This is Walk the Way, brought to you by Q Place, I’m Jeff Klein. And I’m Pam Klein. Not too long ago there was a pretty funny commercial running for the quiz show Jeopardy. It opened with a kid asking her dad where babies come from. The dad is at a loss for words, and fumbles for an answer. Next, a congressman in front of the press, is asked to explain his spending on travel for the past year. He has no answer. Finally, a wife appears, dressed for a party...Read more …
Why is serving WITH people who believe differently, so important?

Why is serving WITH people who believe differently, so important?

The idea of serving people in order to communicate God’s grace is hardly novel. “Bringing the whole gospel to the whole person” marks both contemporary missional churches and longstanding mission organizations. Yet, if we limit ourselves to serving people in order to demonstrate God’s love for them, we may be ignoring an even more loving, relational, authentic and dynamic approach–serving together with people who believe differently. Together Together is the key word. The dynamic changes when people do something together; the rules change when you are in relationship. Consider John’s story: When I was in grade school, I played multiple...Read more …
28 great thoughts on listening

28 great thoughts on listening

  • Posted on January 27, 2017
  • /Under Listening
Jerold Panas is CEO of one of the nation’s premier campaign services and financial resource development firms, and recently wrote that listening is “the single most powerful ammunition in your arsenal of fundraising, marketing and selling skills. Best of all, it’s a talent that can be learned and acquired.” Q Place is jazzed by Panas’ insightful thoughts about listening and hope that they also will inspire you: It often shows an extraordinary command of the language to say nothing. There is no greater compliment to a person than demonstrating a keen interest in them. You do this by listening intently. We are...Read more …
Aha! Where can you end up if you follow a trail of curiosity?

Aha! Where can you end up if you follow a trail of curiosity?

  • Posted on October 10, 2016
  • /Under Noticing
For a bit of time in 2015, Robert Krulwich and Aatish Bhatia authored a blog called “Noticing,” saying that it was for folks who “like to look around. Who can’t not. Who find it hard to get anywhere on time because there’s always something—an oddly behaving raindrop (is it going up? How can it go up?)—that we can’t not notice, not puzzle over.” They called themselves badly over-puzzled. Hmmmm…Woah! Huh? Aha! Their notion was that observation and curiosities—those little things that “catch the eye”—can put us in a state of  They invited every reader to join them on a journey “to...Read more …
5 Ways We Are Doing Evangelism Wrong

5 Ways We Are Doing Evangelism Wrong

Editor’s Note: If you have the desire to engage in spiritual conversations with those who believe differently, you will undoubtedly find the following thoughts helpful, recently written by Q Place president, Mary Schaller, for crosswalk.com. Somehow, our ways of spreading the good news about Jesus have turned into bad news for so many. Before we can facilitate any spiritual conversation, our lives have to welcome. We have to love. ____________________________ Insensitive. Judgmental. Hypocritical. Narrow minded. Preachy.  This was the rapid-fire response I got from a small group discussion I was facilitating when the topic of evangelism came up. It was a...Read more …
On the Radio – Walk the Way

On the Radio – Walk the Way

This is Walk the Way. Brought to you by Q Place, I’m Jeff Klein. Do our methods match the Master’s ways? When it comes to telling the world about the Gospel we believe in and who it is that we follow, I find the methods chosen by some Christians interesting to say the least. Is blatant violence, yelling, and anger really spreading the good news of the gospel? And if the medium is the message, what are we actually saying our message is by acting that way? Will our snarled faces and defensive postures accomplish anything? Are these God’s ways?...Read more …
It’s Okay…relax! It’s a Q Place!

It’s Okay…relax! It’s a Q Place!

“Oh! The Bible!? I don’t like the Bible!” These were the words spoken by a woman who came to my Trial Meeting. A Q Place Trial Meeting is the first meeting of a Q Place, where participants get to experience the group for the first time. It’s literally a trial—any potential participant can “try a Q Place” risk free, with no expectation to return. When the woman blurted out her remark, we all could’ve heard a pin drop. But because of my Q Place training, I knew questions were the best way to respond. So, I asked the woman, “Can...Read more …
Facilitate Learning

Facilitate Learning

When you get to know Q Place, it doesn’t take long to realize that we are serious about helping Christians facilitate learning rather than pour out what we know. This is our core value of Self-discovery – people grow and learn best when they discover truth for themselves through discussion and study. All of our core values—Scripture, Spirit, Safe Place, and Self-discovery—were integral at the birth of this ministry in the 1960s as Neighborhood Bible Studies. Little did co-founders Marilyn Kunz and Catherine Schell know how essential the value of Self-discovery would become in our culture more than 50 years...Read more …
Stuntman?

Stuntman?

When our son Benjamin first told his dad and me that he was seriously considering leaving what most of us see as life’s prescribed pathway—a four-year college experience—mid-way through his junior year…to pursue becoming a stuntman, I remember his father’s one word response. Stuntman? Feeling a little empathy for my husband and me at this juncture? Thanks! Actually, Benjamin’s pronouncement wasn’t completely out of left field! His imagination, giftings, life-long love of entertainment, and passion for adventure had provided ample context for what otherwise could have been a total shock. (Too bad the picture of him atop that piano wasn’t a video!...Read more …
The Second Question

The Second Question

In his eBook Great Leaders Ask Questions, Bob Tiede writes this in the introduction: Are you familiar with T.A.? You are probably familiar with A.A.—Alcoholics Anonymous. Well, T.A. stands for “Tellers Anonymous!” I have an addiction—I am addicted to telling! At T.A. meetings I stand up and introduce myself: “My name is Bob and I am a teller.” Today, I am a recovering teller. However, the temptation to “lead by telling” has never left me. You could say that this eBook—sharing my favorite questions with you—is part of my recovery program, as is my blog: LeadingWithQuestions.com. Leading with questions takes...Read more …
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