Our Guest: Katherine Gallagher
Katherine Gallagher is CEO of GoStrategic, a ministry that educates and connects leaders through its global network.
With a robust background in education and leadership, she has over 30 years of speaking experience. Her journey includes abstinence-based sex education in public schools, biblical worldview, organizational stewardship, business strategy, and interpersonal relationships.
Katherine has authored two books. She also develops curricula for university-level courses, is a former small-business owner, and serves on the board of several non-profits.
Scriptures and Key Points:
- In public schools, you can’t quote any scripture. But you can share the principles of the Lord.
- The people who had the biggest problem with Katherine sharing about abstinence was not the teenagers or the parents. They could see it as a healthier approach.The folks who she had the most friction with were older singles, because they realized that what she was saying applied to them.
- Biblical principles apply to all ages of how God’s called us to live our lives.
- Go Strategic is an international, global nonprofit that works to educate, educate and equip leaders and connect leaders.
- The organization was birthed out of a passion to see people apply the Word of God to every area of their life.
- We’ve stopped short too many times with the gospel of salvation and not continued to the Gospel of the Kingdom.
- There’s so much more that we do that can complement one another in our work for the kingdom.
- Also, there are different elements of the culture that we need to impact with the Gospel of Christ in tangible ways.
- There are five jurisdictions that are outlined in the Bible. Starting with yourself, then going out to the family, then the church, the ecclesia, and then the marketplace and broader culture, and then finally the government.
- That is the order that society is meant to be governed.
- When we look at how God has ordered society and our spheres of responsibility, it also applies to what we call jurisdictional problem solving.
- Often today’s issues in society can be traced back to a breakdown of the family.
- Because a healthy family is the foundation.
Katherine reminds us that the only way to have long term transformation and sustainable change is to get to the root.
- Change begins from the inside out and the bottom up.
- That doesn’t mean we don’t still need to affect culture on the higher levels.
- The Kingdom of God’s built on relationships.
- We serve a holistic God.
- Throughout creation the Lord has designed different systems to work together.
- The freedom of understanding and simplifying the principles of the Word of God and understanding how He builds is pivotal and crucial.
- People can actually see the impact of the biblical worldview.
- Truth works.
- They love Jesus, but there is a miss if they are not equipped to think biblically.
- Having a biblical world view is thinking like God thinks and understanding how He made the world and designed us.
- Why do we believe what we believe?
- Every big issue we have on any portion of life will come down to what we believe about one of the big three, and that’s the nature of God, the nature of man and the nature of truth.
- Everything we do stems from some sort of belief connected to those things.
- So the starting point is understanding those big three and then what God says about those things, then ordering our lives according to it.
- Were the disciples converted first, or being discipled before conversion?
- Pre-conversion discipleship: Because the answer is, they were actually being discipled. They didn’t get a revelation till later, but they were being discipled in Kingdom Principles.
- Give them biblical principles. Then when the truth comes in, they get a revelation.
- That is a huge part of what the Great Commission is supposed to be. Making disciples.
- Someone can be a disciple before they’ve actually had the revelation of Christ.
How are we designed and made to flourish?
- It’s not about what you can’t do. But about choosing life and what actually will produce good fruit.
Deuteronomy 30:19 NKJV …I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life…
“Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.” – St. Francis of Assisi
- Speak fish. What are the fish feeding on?
- Being strategic and leading with the principles and how they work, and an approach of healthy versus unhealthy.
- What language strategy do we use when we’re engaging people in these conversations?
- “Holy Spirit, keep me aware in these conversations of what you want me to say.”
- The degree of influence we have in someone’s life is determined on the level of that relationship.
- Penetrate the heart to change the thinking.
- The Lord has planted each of us in a garden and our sphere of influence, and we have a responsibility to that sphere of influence.
- Katherine built a bridge of trust with her neighbors that led to the witnessing conversations that she was able to have with them.
- The greater tragedy is if you never give them the opportunity to know Jesus.
1 Corinthians 3:6 NKJV I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
- All of us have the calling of doing our Heavenly Father’s business.
Luke 2:49 NKJV …Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”
- We have to revisit and digest and chew on these principles that God has for us.
- There’s always more, there’s more revelation we can receive, even from things that maybe we’ve read before.
Katherine’s personal story
- You have to own your faith.
- All of us have to go through a crisis of faith in one form or another to really be rooted.
- Power is guarded by problems.
- The more we overcome, the greater responsibility He’ll give to us.
- We need to call people to accountability, but also have grace.
- Also, still honor people in the midst of pain and mistakes.
- Everything we do still comes back to who we are.
- “You took a vow to be a wife, not a vow to be a roommate.”
- Katherine’s marriage covenant was between her and the Lord.
- She could have functioned as a roommate, but would not have been who God called her to be.
- It’s about pleasing the Lord; He helps us overcome all these other obstacles and challenges in our lives, if we can learn to keep our eyes fixed on Him.
- We cannot forget that it starts with the Lord, then our family, then our ministry, in that order.
- The essence of genius is simplicity.
- When we get down to these key foundational beliefs, it’s the same everywhere.
- But the reality is in giving weapons to the last person on the last row of the church to be able to spread the Gospel.
- No leader sets out to fail.
Links:
Books:
- Worldview: A Handbook for Biblical Thinking and Lifestyle by Katherine Gallagher
- Doing Business God’s Way by Dennis Peacocke
- Leadership Awakening by Doug Stringer
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