Monday, January 07, 2008

Legacy

"Making a living is not the same thing as making a life. What we've done for ourselves dies with us. But what we've done for others remains. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give."

This is the essence of legacy.. of discipleship. It is not only about us and about our generation. But it is also about the generations to come.

In the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell speaks of four types of accomplishment in a leader’s life:

ACHIEVEMENT comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself;
SUCCESS comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him;
SIGNIFICANCE comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him;
• but a LEGACY is created when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.