About Kevin

Faith in God.

It has never really been a question for me.

As far back as I can remember, I have believed in God and that Jesus Christ was his son. I always wondered why my Baptist buddy always was pushing me on “being saved!” I never had that defining moment, that great transformational story.

People would get up at a gathering and give their testimony. Wow! I would say. That is amazing and very impressive considering what God has done in that person’s life.

But no big story from me, not even a fictitious one (although the thought did cross my mind to make myself and my moment bigger than life – I just couldn’t bring myself to do it).

Having said that, I still went through my youth, college days, and the early adulthood ignorant of God’s Word. Sure, I believed, and sure, I went to church – but I did not have the relationship Christ desired with me. Nor did I truly understand the concept that Paul talks so much about – dying to my old self and becoming alive in my new self.

It wasn’t until 1996, down on my knees and at a crossroad with God, that I said OK, God, OK – not my way, but Your Way! From that point forward, my relationship with God was different. I was in search of my “new self” – a self that was Christ-centered versus self-centered.

As a leader in my professional career, I have tried to keep up with the best and latest knowledge around effectiveness and leadership. Every time a new book came out, I read it. I was in search of what it takes to be effective.

Many authors influenced me along the way, both from a secular and Christian perspective. Each book brought new insights to a better way to live out my life.

After God got ahold of my life – or should I say, after I bent my will back toward God’s will in my life – he planted a seed in my mind and heart to write a book around the year 2000.

But what was my book to be about? When I started working on it, I modeled it after one of my favorite leadership books: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, but with Christian overtones.

My question was, “What does a truly effective Christian look like?” Is it a person living out the 7 Habits with Jesus Christ as the fuel?

While I contemplated this path, God worked on me to start looking at effectiveness more through the lens of the Greatest Commandment and the Second Greatest Commandment:

1. Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, all of your mind, all of your soul and all of your strength.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself.

This was my new path, my new line of thinking about effectiveness. I thought God was on to something and just hoped I wouldn't screw it up. After 15 years of toil, sweat, and hard work, I completed the work God had called me to do with my book Walk This Way, Walk His Way.

Where do I go from here? God is helping me figure that out at the moment. So, for now, I will try to do my best to follow God’s lead and stay out of the way the best I can.