Feedback

What do you think when you hear the word "feedback"? 

Are you excited?

Are you afraid?

Do you enjoy giving feedback to others because you want to fix them? Or because you genuinely love them and want them to be all that God intends them to be? 

When someone gives you feedback do you accept it graciously and thank them? Or do you lash out at them in retaliation? 

Are you afraid that they just mean to cut you down?

Do you wonder if they think they are better than you? Do you think that you are better than them?

In Agape Europe we are striving to be a "feedback culture" in a healthy way. 

We are striving to give feedback and to receive feedback in love and truth. 

We are not asking that everyone looks for ways to criticize each other.

We are not asking everyone to begin offering feedback whenever and wherever they desire.

We are asking that everyone genuinely care about the growth and development of the other. 

We are asking everyone to lay aside pride and to ask for specific feedback in order to grow into the people that God has designed us to be. 

We are asking that everyone gives feedback with grace and truth, not to smash the other, but to encourage and exhort the other.

Can you imagine if your group, team, family, organization, church, class, etc... developed a culture of healthy feedback? What if every time someone asked for and received feedback it was followed by prayer? 

Or what about "feedforward"? Try this in your group... have everyone write down an area that they want to improve on a piece of paper. Then everyone approaches 3-5 people (one at a time) to ask for their ideas in how to grow in that area.

How often do you get to ask for help in growing in an area?