5 more ways of the 10 ways to build trust:
- Be accountable.
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- God gives more opportunity and responsibility to those who have proved themselves trustworthy.
- “‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’ (Luke 19.17)
- Hold yourself accountable and responsible. Don’t blame others when you should take responsibility.
- God gives more opportunity and responsibility to those who have proved themselves trustworthy.
2. Do what say you will do.
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- Behave in ways that builds trust in others. Show up the same way every day. Don’t be mad at everybody one day and happy as the lark the next day. Be consistent.
- … those who fear the LORD…keeps his oath even when it hurts… (Ps 15.4)
- … show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive. (Titus 2.10)
- Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. (1 Cor. 4.2)
- Practice authentic empathy.
- Empathy is the ability to step inside the shoes of another, feel his emotions, and see life from his perspective. When you seek to truly empathize, it creates safety.
- One of the Old Testament words for trust (batach) has a meaning of “careless.” When you trust your spouse or someone else, you feel so safe that you are careless—or free of concern—with him or her. You don’t have to hide who you are or be self-protective (from Focus on the Family).
- Seek understanding before being understood. In other words learn to truly listen.
- My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry…. (James 1.19)
- The more we know each other and truly listen, the more we can understand why others do what they do.
- Listen to understand, not build your case, not to reply, not to find loopholes in the other person’s argument or viewpoint, not to correct them, but listen to first understand.
- What would you add as a tenth?
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