by Bitner (bio)
Over the last several months we have placed a lot of focus on mormon.org, which is a phenomenal resource. In fact, we have had an entire family and two other singles join the church in large part because of the exposure they had to mormon.org. Have you created a mormon.org profile yet? You should. The spectrum of mormon profiles on mormon.org is extremely uplifting.
But I digress.
I was talking about struggling to find success. What is success in the realm of member missionary work, anyway? Is it helping someone to and through baptism and confirmation and beyond?
At a recent MBA conference up in NYC, I heard Clayton Christensen -- the well-known Mormon professor at Harvard Business School who was on the cover of Forbes this year -- speak about a variety of things. One thing he touched on was member missionary work (at an MBA conference?! Yup!). Turns out he knows a lot about it. He wrote an Ensign article about it and he has a website dedicated to it. From his Ensign article:
"Once we realized that we succeed as member missionaries when we invite people to learn and accept the truth, much of the fear that kept us from sharing the gospel vanished." Ensign February 2005
Touche, Brother. Success is in the invitation.
