2025

January Edition

Welcome to the January 2025 edition of A Few Good Things.

Characteristic of the Kingdom – What does this look like for your organization?

In his book After Doubt, Theologian AJ Swoboda writes, “…not once in the New Testament are we invited to ‘build’ God’s kingdom. We can’t build God’s kingdom. Only God can build this kingdom. We enter God’s kingdom.” (pg. 156)

This thought-provoking statement forces us to take inventory. To ensure we have a posture that joins God’s kingdom-building purposes with a posture of humility, service, and surrender. To start with His agenda and not ours.

Your business can be an agent of God’s restorative work. With intentionality, it can enter into God’s kingdom-building work, having a profound impact on the flourishing of your people, the building of robust communities, and the ability to sustain economic regeneration.

Are you ready to truly enter into God’s Kingdom?  

It starts with identifying the “why” before you ever ask the questions, “Where are we going?” and “How will we get there?” To see your very business as sacred ground where God wants to display his Kingdom characteristics of love, joy, peace, goodness, beauty, humility, purpose, honor, and holistic flourishing.

What would it look like for your business to start with the “why?” To see itself as an extension of God’s Kingdom. To design your purposes, systems, and culture that reflect the Great Designer.

We are launching Leadership Cohorts as a new opportunity to receive equipping and empowering to build and steward Good Place organizations! Starting this year, Cohort Groups will be available to help leaders model their leadership and organization after the King and His Kingdom foundations.

Three Reasons to Join:

1. DISCUSSION - explore, discuss, and learn the why, what, and how of building and stewarding Good Place Organizations.

2. LEARNING - receive knowledge, counsel, and perspective from certified GPI coaches and facilitators, as well as your peers in your cohort.

3. CONNECTION - build a lifelong and robust community of peers that provide perspective, wise counsel, and encouragement along the GPI journey.

Learn more about GPI Leadership Cohort Groups and apply today:

GPI has been involved in a few events this month, and we have a couple coming up in February. Below, you can find where we will be soon, or you can contact us to learn how to get involved and attend. Or, if you’d like to request Chris to speak at your event, conference, or workshop, visit our speaking page on our website.

C-12 Leadership Groups - Chris had the pleasure of speaking at two Northeast Ohio C-12 Forums this month. On January 15th, he spoke at a CEO Forum, and on January 21st, he spoke at a Key Player Forum.

FCCI Pathway to Purpose – Webinar

Date: February 18, 2025

Webinar: Building and Stewarding Kingdom Organizations

CCO Jubilee – Pittsburgh, PA 

Date: February 22, 2025

Workshop speaker on Building and Stewarding Kingdom Organizations

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“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

—Francis Chan, American Protestant author, teacher, and preacher

Are you a visionary leader ready to drive innovation and growth in a dynamic industry? PowerPro360, part of our Good Place Holdings family, is looking for a General Manager who can bring fresh ideas to training and asset management in the world of electric power reliability. If you have great business insight and strong strategic leadership skills, we would love for you to join the GPH team! Check out this new opportunity to be part of a Good Place organization.

Thank you for checking out our newsletter. Our purpose at The Good Place Institute is to help leaders multiply Good Place organizations! We are thankful for you and your leadership of organizations to reflect God’s Kingdom!

Chris Young

President

The Good Place Institute