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[virtuous-leadership-school] Q3.2 Mutual Competence

July 27, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Otis, Scratch-off, Spellcheck, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Coffee, prayer, and life stories of mentoring and of mutual “dependence.”

THE THANG: The general alignment of skill within a shared leadership team.
– Leadership = mechanics + fruit + evaluation + adjustment
– Doing what, when and how you are supposed to do it.
– Getting wrapped up in trying to be perfect can be a hindrance.
– I was in it for the process, not for the product.
– God loves the process.
– Practice to remain competent!
– Competence requires time, if you try to speed up the growth, you may damage the roots.
– There’s a difference between skill and getting lucky.
– Paul tells Timothy to continue to practice so that his progess is evident ot all. 1 Timothy 4:15-16.
– Personal Growth = leadership of the man in your head

Homework: Bring examples of how the following relates to Trust (next week’s topic.) – “The more you grow, the more is required of you as you move from learning as a student into transfering what you have learned to another (leadership.)”

COT: Prayer and pic.

[cv-brickyard] Drifting

July 26, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-brickyard
Q: Simmons
PAX: Spellcheck, Hamm (Jamie Suarez), A-Rod (Nate Peterson), Herbie, Mountain Ice, Appleseed, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Otis, Floppy Disc, Simmons, Recoil (Blake Conley)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: SSH, toy soldiers, tempo squats, ohc, chinooks

THE THANG: Run. Every 1/4 mile do 5 burpee, 10 merkins, 15 BBs, 20 squats.

MARY: Hello Dollies, Box cutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Most people don’t RUN from God, thy just drift.
But as for me, how good it is to be near God! I have made the Sovereign Lord my shelter, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do.” – Psalm 73:28 (NLT)

“Don’t Drift!”

A few years ago, a family from Ohio had one of those experiences that parents have nightmares about. It was their first trip to the ocean, and they were enjoying the sun, the beach, and the waves. Their 8-year-old son Declan was playing in his cute little inflatable unicorn pool in the sand at the water’s edge. They were having the time of their lives. They turned their heads for just a moment, and when they turned back around, they saw that Declan and his pool had been pulled into the water by a strong wave. Before they could get to him to pull him back, the current had pulled him out past the breakers, where they couldn’t reach him.

Frantically, they began to yell for help. Water Rescue was quick to the scene and got a boat out to Declan to bring him back. By the time they reached him, he was a half mile from shore! He was terribly frightened, but otherwise fine. And two greatly relieved parents hugged him like they were never going to let go.

It doesn’t take long to drift away. Not from shore, and not from God. The Psalmist reminds us that we need to stay CLOSE. With a thousand things pulling at our hearts, it’s easy to get caught up in stuff and never even realize we’re drifting away from Him. We don’t mean to. We just get careless. We get busy and stop spending time with Him. We get caught up in our jobs, our hobbies, our friends, even our church “activities.” All GOOD things. But we lose touch with God. We stop leaning into Him, learning from Him, holding onto Him. Before long, we start doing things out of our own strength, out of our own wisdom, and out of our own purposes. Then, we have that startling moment when we suddenly realize we’ve lost touch with Him. Now we’re in trouble, and we have no idea how we got so far away. The answer? We drifted. We simply took our eyes off Him, and the waves of life carried us away. Now we’re crying out for help.

Don’t flirt with disaster. Don’t be careless with your life. There’s a BIG ocean out there that can hurt you in a thousand different ways. Stay close to God. Keep your eyes on Him and keep your life, your job, and all you do tethered to His Presence. You need Him more than you know. If you have drifted away, cry out to Him. God loves you like those parents loved their child. He will come to you, wherever you are, and bring you safely back to shore. So be careful out there today. Enjoy your life and all the good things God has laid at your feet. But stay close to Him. Most of us don’t run from God. We drift. That’s God’s Word for you today.

[cv-brickyard] 400 feet of Tug Rope Fitness Fellowship, Faith, and Fun!

July 24, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: cv-brickyard
Q: Spellcheck
PAX: Simmons, Gmail, Jim Norris, flyball, Otis, Mountain Ice, Bail Bonds, Natty, Appleseed, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Floppy Disc, Spellcheck, Hamm, Recoil , Mongoose (Otis’s 2.0)
FNGs: 1 Mongoose (Otis’s 2.0)
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:
The usual thangs.

THE THANG:
100 Yard Rope Run (10 mins)
Run pulling the rope 100 yards / down & back
10 Merkins & Big Boys (while waiting)
Medicine Ball Partner passing

100 Ft. Rope Pulls (10 mins)
Starting at the goal line pull all 100 ft on rope to you handover hand.
Grab the other end and run it back straight & Bear Crawl Back
10 flutter kicks & Bobby Hurley‘s (while waiting)
Medicine Ball Partner passing

Tug of war rounds (5 yards)
Challenge the guys on your rope.
Challenge the rope beside you.
Combine 2 ropes & challenge the other 2 ropes.

MARY:
During “The Thang”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dad camp

COT:
We’re all broken in someway you are not defined by your weaknesses, more by how you respond to them.

“Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭12‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭NLT‬‬

The Cracked Pot parable tells the story of a water bearer who uses two pots, one perfect and one cracked, to carry water. The cracked pot, feeling ashamed of its flaw, learns that its leakage has unintentionally created a path of beautiful flowers along the way. The parable highlights the idea that imperfections can be a source of unexpected beauty and purpose, and that everyone has unique strengths and contributions to make, according to multiple sources.

[virtuous-leadership-school] Q3.1 Shared Leadership

July 20, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Otis
PAX: Borg, Mountain Ice, Spellcheck, Mermaid, Baby Boomer, Otis, Boy George, Scratch-off
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: Greetings and wait on the Q to show up :pensive:, then prayer.

THE THANG: Start off by catching back up where we left off last week, Borg asked some great questions and left them as homework.
1. In leading a group, at what point do standards and criteria become hypocritical?
2. Then consider this in relation to proximity – the difference with a relationship vs absent a relationship.
We discussed at length what it meant to by hypocritical, mainly when compared to ignorance or a lack of awareness. None of us are perfect, so humility and candor are required to avoid hypocrisy.
If you have to ask yourself where the line is between okay and too far, then you are already treading in dangerous territory.

Socratic
• Why do men pool their efforts?
• Can anyone Lead together?
• Does a Leader gain anything by sharing power?

Team Development: Trust, Equipping, Accountability and Missionality

F3’s Leadership Virtues:
• Candor: graciously telling the hard Truth and demanding to hear it from
others
• Commitment: unwavering loyalty to the Group and unflinching
determination to accomplish its Mission
• Consistency: to be unchanging in nature, Standard or effect over time
• Contentment: stability of emotion engendered by the Consistent pursuit of Joy rather than Happiness
• Courage: setting aside fear to turn hardship into grace

Team Non-negotiable Elements: Trust, Shared Virtue and Mutual Competence

It is true that success has many fathers, but that failure is an orphan. By Leading from the Shield Lock, the Pro shares both with his Brothers of his SLT—for the benefit of the people who depend upon him.

Spur
• Shared Leadership is a conspiracy to Influence Movement to Advantage
• A Shared Leadership Team requires Trust, Shared Virtue and Mutual Competence
between its Members
• A Virtuous Leader is a Pro who Leads from the Shield Lock

MARY: Prayer

ANNOUNCEMENTS: It was great to see everybody and some new faces around the table! Q3.2 next week!

COT: Pretty much the whole time

[virtuous-leadership-school] Lead Right – Q3 in the QSource

July 13, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Mermaid, Otis, Spellcheck, Scratch-off, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: Stories and Prayer

THE THANG: Fruit of leadership cannot be faked – you turn a minute into a lifetime. Good or bad. Something that continues without you.
– Position power vs personal power – F3 has no position power.
– “The persuasion is the place where I flop.”
– Do the rating criteria on a team help the mission or distract from it?
– Winnowing process may look like failure – Jesus’ depleting the ranks of followers with his instructions regarding eating his flesh (communion.)
– Persuasion without understanding can have a sneaky, snake oil connotation to it.
– Exhoration is a 3 way street: The approach/relationship. The deliverer. The receiver.
– Did men step in with the focus of “We can be better than this?”
– Discussed basic civility in pictures and in public places.

HOMEWORK:
1. In leading a group, at what point do standards and criteria become hypocritical?
2. Then consider this in relation to proximity – the difference with a relationship vs absent a relationship.

COT: Prayer