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1.BCTE Makes First
Donation
2. Every Embossing Center Is A
Business
3. The Fear of Rejection | |
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President's
Corner
by Brent Holt
Good things often come in
threes. Faith, hope, and love; the three wise men;
Peter, James, and John; and of course, Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. A couple of weeks ago, as I was talking to
one of the people involved with Bibles Cover The Earth,
we began to discuss the 3-fold way that BCTE can be a
blessing.
First, and most obviously,
giving a Bible to someone who wants or needs it can be a
tremendous blessing, both to the person giving the Bible
and to the one receiving it. Just in the first two
months that we have been launched, I have personally
witnessed how fun and enjoyable it can be to emboss a
name on a Bible and give it to someone who wants it.
The second benefit that
participation with BCTE can provide is the benefit of
being a part of something bigger. As people purchase
Bibles from Bibles Cover The Earth, remember that the
profits of the company are all given away. The company
gives to charities and ministries that have a vision
like BCTE of bringing the blessings of the Kingdom of
God to this earth. You are a part of that! Just think of
what we can accomplish as a group. As Bibles Cover The
Earth grows, the impact all of us will have on this
world will grow with it.
Thirdly, each Embossing
Center is a business in itself. As time goes on and your
genealogy grows, the profit you receive can be used for
whatever God puts on your heart. So, not only will you
be helping the company be a blessing to others, you will
be enabled to actively do things that you feel you are
supposed to do; get out of debt; donate to charities
that you have a heart for; help your church accomplish
its goals, etc.
I have found this 3-fold way
of looking at Bibles Cover The Earth to be very
encouraging. I have also found that it is another good
way to present the benefits of being a part of BCTE to
others. Some of you may be feeling discouraged that
people you are telling about BCTE aren’t responding to
the opportunity. Just remember that we are in the very
early stages of this. With time, more people will see
how this 3 fold opportunity can be a blessing in their
lives. Just continue to emboss your Bibles and enjoy the
blessings of giving. You are planting seeds each time
you “Spread the Word”. If someone doesn’t sign up after
you initially approach them, pray about it and if the
situation presents itself, talk to them about it again.
If not, move on to someone else. I found in scripture
that even Paul dealt with the trial of having to wait on
other people to do something. In 1 Corinthians 16:
12-14, Paul said, “But concerning
Apollos our brother, I encouraged him greatly to come to
you with the brethren; and it was not at all his desire
to come now, but he will come when he has opportunity.
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like
men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in
love.”
May God bless you,
Brent Holt
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Bible Verse of the Month
"The Kingdom of God is within you"
-- Luke 17:21
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Suggestion
Corner
We would like to
hear from you. If you have any suggested improvements to our
program, embossing tips, ideas on who and where
to share our Bibles, or positive stories of people
who have been blessed by our program. E-mail us at:
Good
Ideas
Prison Bibles...
We are
continuing to send Bibles to three of the correctional
facilities here in the State of Arkansas. If any of you have
contact with any Chaplain or prision ministry in any
correctional facility, we would like to add those men and
women to our list of contacts. We will send that facility or
person a letter of our program and allow more inmates to
obtain a Bible with their name embossed on the cover. If
you want to send your Bibles to some of the
inmates, please email us at BibleOutreach
Number Please?
We
now have a phone number for BCTE. Hopefully within the
next month, we will have the number on the main website.
Many people would rather call their order in instead
of using the internet. We understand and we want to offer
that convenience. The number should be up and running very
soon.
Help Us Help You
Are there specific problems or recurrent issues that keep
coming up when you present the BCTE vision and program to new
people? Please let us know what barriers you are running
up against so that we can help overcome these issues.
Please email us at: ContactUs
Prayer For Your
Geneaology
On
the back of your instruction booklet is a prayer for
your genealogy. God can only build this business and we
can only succeed if we are praying for ourselves, our
geneaology, and the company. Please either make a copy
of the back of the instruction booklet or tear off the
back and stick it on your refrigerator where you will be
reminded every day to pray. There is truly strength in
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BIBLES
COVER THE EARTH MAKES ITS FIRST
DONATION
We
are proud to
announce that Bibles Cover The Earth has made
its first donation toward our vision of bringing the
Kingdom of God to this earth. A donation in
the amount of $1400 was made to Power of Freedom
Ministries, a ministry located in Warm Springs,
Arkansas. Its mission is to help men break drug
addiction through Christian counseling and
support.
Left to right: Dennis Holt,
Vice-president of BCTE - Brent Holt,
President of BCTE - Wes Garvin, Founder
and Director of Power of Freedom Ministries
- James Anderson, Pastor of Power of Freedom Ministries.
Every Embossing
Center and Qualified Embossing Center are a vital
part of this donation. You have made it happen. The
vision is unfolding because of you. As you share
the vision with others, the day will come when we will
be able to donate much, much more.
We want to
say thank you to all of you who have understood the vision
and who have joined Bibles Cover The Earth in
the month of March and April. In our six weeks of operation we
have sent out over 100 Bibles in Starter Kits and
Bible Packs. Many of those Bibles have been sent to
prisoners at the various correctional facilities here in
Arkansas with more requests for Bibles coming in from
them nearly every day.
Sometimes
it is hard
to understand why every Christian would not want to be
a part of our vision. If its the MLM factor, look
at what BCTE has done in only six weeks
with the principle of MLM. Is this not what Jesus
was talking about in Luke 16? Bibles Cover The Earth is
a Kingdom business dedicated to bringing God's Kingdom
fully to this earth; but this business is not like any
other. We give away our profits. Jesus said that we
would know a tree by its fruit. Our tree may be strange
looking but we are proud of our fruit. Thanks again to
all of our Embossing Centers and Qualified Embossing
Centers for helping us Spread The
Word.
Let's
continue to grow together.
EVERY
EMBOSSING CENTER IS A BUSINESS
PART ONE
by Dennis
Holt
I want to share my outlook on each Emossing Center being
a business. For me it is a second business, but one that
is very uniquely structured.
Every year in this great country, millions of people
attempt to start a new business. In the process they
invest thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of
time. The success rate for these new start-ups, however,
is not positive. The demands of any new business can be
tremendous. We have all heard the old adage, "work
smarter not harder," but few realize how to apply the
wisdom of this phrase. God's Word teaches wisdom
for ALL aspects of our life if we have the ability
to "rightly divide the word."
One of the greatest ways that we can work smarter is by
using leverage. Leverage means to
get more done using less. Let me give you an example of leverage.
A young man has a paper route which he delivers papers while walking the route.
One day he buys a bicycle which allows him to deliver
twice the number of papers in the same amount of
time. The young man has discovered leverage. Leverage is a
Kingdom of God principle. Jesus said it this way: "Unless a
grain of wheat fall into the ground and die,
it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth
much fruit" - John 12:24. Jesus was God but He was confined to
the limitations of a human body. Using leverage,
however, His vision called for His Spirit to be in
millions of human bodies doing the work of God's Kingdom
all over the earth. On the day of Pentecost His Vision
began. Using the principle of leverage, the Spirit
of Jesus now dwells inside of every born-again
believer.
Bibles Cover The Earth uses the principle of leverage to
increase the potential and opportunity for every person
who joins our vision. Each Embossing Center may seem to
do very little, but using the principle of leverage,
each Embossing Center combined with all of its sponsored
Embossing Centers develops a genealogy that has
the potential to do great things for the
Kingdom.
Some of the most powerful businesses in our areas are
examples of leverage. Think of McDonalds, Burger King,
Kentucky Fried Chicken. All of these and many more
are using the principle of
leverage.
You have a
unique opportunity as an Embossing Center. You have the
opportunity to leverage yourself by sponsoring other
Embossing Centers. But there's more. You can have an
even greater impact on each Embossing Center that
you sponsor by also leveraging your enthusiasm, your
vision, your excitement, your future plans and goals. So
many Christians have little knowledge of the Kingdom of
God. Few even realize that we Christians are
responsible for manifesting the fullness of that Kingdom
on this earth. Jesus said it was the number one
thing that we are to
seek.
If the
Kingdom is to fully manifest, we need Kingdom
businesses. I firmly believe that we are in a
season where the Holy Spirit is pouring
forth ideas for new Kingdom businesses. Kingdom
businesses not only provide the wealth for ushering in
the Kingdom, they also train each of us to gain and care
for wealth God's way. God's Kingdom on this earth
will not be built using the revenue of Satan's
worldly system. That revenue must first be placed into
the hands of God's children.
They then choose to either build the Kingdom or a
"golden calf." In the hands of Christians the
monies are sanctified or
made holy for God's purpose. Up to
this time, the Kingdom has been entirely supported through
this type of means (donations). I believe, however, that this is getting ready to
change because it has been insufficent. The Church
is perceived by many in the world to be nothing
more than a conglomeration of beggars, always pandering in some way
for money. This causes the Kingdom
to be viewed in a bad way which makes
evangelization of the Gospel difficult. Kingdom businesses will have the primary
goal of supporting God's Kingdom on this earth. It
will not be business as usual. Wealth will
move from the hands of those who are not Kingdom
minded to those who are.
I believe that Bibles Cover The Earth is on the
fringe of a new move of the Spirit in the world of
business. I believe that many of you will use the
revenue from this Kingdom business to start your own
unique Kingdom business. As each one is
established, Kingdom wealth will grow and for the
first time in the history of the Church we will have the
money and the time needed to complete the Vision of
God for this
earth.
We have developed another new catch phrase:
Start a new business that can change the
world!
We are
becoming more excited about Bibles
Cover The Earth every day. We also pray for every Embossing
Center, that God will mightily bless you and your
family. Stay open to the Holy Spirit and
to any new ideas that He may drop into your heart. We
are in that season.
Next
month I will share another Kingdom principle vital to
Kingdom businesses: The Principle of Giving and
Receiving. Until then go out and
leverage
yourself.
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THE FEAR
OF REJECTION
I
remember my first encounter with multi-level marketing.
It was many years ago. I just knew that everyone I
approached with my new-found opportunity would want
to quickly become involved. I had at least ten people in
mind who were close friends and who I just knew
would see and comprehend the
opportunity. Not one of the ten joined.
Needless to say it knocked the wind out of my sails.
Sound familiar? I think it happens to us all. But it is how
we respond to the "no's" that determines our success or
our failure. It is unfortunate that we live in a
world that is very skeptical and untrusting. People seem to
be afraid of everything from identity theft to being
scammed. Their fear assures us that, at times, we will be
rejected when we share the vision of Bibles Cover
The Earth. There are things, however, that we can
do to be more successful.
(1) Know how the BCTE
program works . If we attempt to present
the program and we don't know how it works ourselves, we
are doomed to fail. Our uncertainty causes
immediate skepticism in the mind of the person who is hearing
the presentation. The more, "I don't know's," we repeat,
the greater our chance is of being rejected. Put
yourself in the other person's shoes. Would you join
any type of program if any of the details were hazy
or uncertain? Remember that your Embossing
Center is a business that you own and represent. Study
the program until you understand every facet of
the business. The simplicity of the BCTE program makes
this very easy. It is not complicated at all. Knowledge
will help you succeed and cut down on the number
of "no's." It may also be helpful to print out the
"Details" page from the website by clicking here and giving that out to the
person you are talking to. It may seem like a lot
of material but most people want
to have more information before investing themselves in anything like
this.
(2) Be enthusiastic
about the program. You are part of a great program that
works. It has been proven. We are sending out many
Bibles to many different people. The Word of God is
going forth and you are making it happen. That alone
should cause excitement, but there's more. We are
sending out profit checks to Embossing Centers. The
program is empowering those Embossing Centers to maybe
spend more time working for the Kingdom of God.
The more we grow, the more Embossing Centers
will join this group and the greater the impact will be
for the Kingdom. Think about this: What if twenty
Embossing Centers were members of one church, they each were receiving
a monthly $500 profit check, and each one was tithing 10%
of their check? That church would have a
new monthly income of $1000. Many churches could start vital new
programs for their people with that type of monthly income.
Is that not something to be enthusiastic about? And
to top it off, the company is also
giving its own profits away to help ministries and charities fulfill the
Gospel message. That's not
hypothetical, we are doing it! There's no other program like
this. We are the first and you are
a part of the revolution that will empower the
Body of Christ to fully usher in the Kingdom of
God on this earth. Now that's something worth getting enthusiastic
about.
(3) Consider the impact
that one dedicated person can have
. This, more than anything else, helps
me overcome rejection. I love reading biographies of great
people. The one common denominator for these people is that
they never quit. No matter what was thrown at
them, they overcame the situation and became better for it.
I think of Thomas Edison, Mother Teresa,
and Abraham Lincoln. Dedication set these people
apart. The word, "holy," actually means "to be set
apart." As Christians we are called to be holy or set
apart. We are called to be dedicated to a mission of
bringing our Savior's Kingdom to this earth. Each and
every one of us have an opportunity to make a huge
impact if we will stay dedicated and not become
distracted by the "things of this world." To me
the opposite of dedication is laziness and this
coupled with apathy is what is hurting every church
across this nation. Every Embossing Center has the
opportunity to change this and become that light set on
a hill. I believe that every Christian is called to do
something to help usher in the fullness of
God's Kingdom on this earth. With Bibles Cover
The Earth, we offer that opportunity. Dedication
will help that opportunity grow to greatness.
(4) Treat
your Embossing Center like the Home-based business
that it is. What would happen to McDonalds
if they were afraid to advertise because they made
hamburgers? I want to encourage each of you to not
be ashamed of your involvement with Bibles Cover
The Earth. Share the vision. Advertise. I don't
mean with an ad in the paper; I mean by simply sharing
the program and giving out your cards. Don't let the
fact that we are a MLM hamper your sharing.
The Kingdom of God grows by this
principle. One of our goals is to redeem this
valuable principle by using it for its original purpose.
I often tell people that our salvation is a result of
MLM. Jesus started with a matrix of 12 on the first
level with unlimited depth. All of us are somewhere in
His growing genealogy.
A
home-based business is like any other business. We all
need continued training. There are many groups that
offer excellent training for people with home-based
businesses. Confidence is a great deterant to rejection.
Do you know that the most prevalent fear for man is fear
of public speaking? We can overcome that fear by
growing in confidence of our subject matter, in this
case the program offered by BCTE.
I have
been impressed with entrepreneur and author, Robert
Kiyosaki. He seems to have a unique perspective on our
changing economy. Here is an excerpt from his
book, Rich Dad Poor Dad.
When I speak to adults who want to earn more
money, I always recommend the same thing. I sugget
taking a long view of their life. Instead of simply
working for the money and security, which I admit are
important, I suggest they take a second job that will
teach them a second skill. Often I recommend joining a
network marketing company, also
called multi-level marketing if they want to learn
sales skills. Some of these companies have excellent
training programs that help people get over their
fear of failure and rejection, which are the main
reasons people are unsuccessful. Education is more
valuable than money, in the long run. (pg.138)
Re-read
this paragraph with greater concentration. Notice the
reasons that he cites for lack of success. He, too,
believes that rejection is a powerful force.
Once we
realize how limiting rejection can be to our life
and to our success we can make a qualified decision not
to allow it to affect us so strongly. We can basically
choose not to give it any power over
us.
There
is something very important in the statement Mr.
Kiyosaki makes about education. I may be getting off the
subject a little here but I want to make a point.
One of our goals at Bibles Cover The Earth is
to educate every member on their individual importance
to the Kingdom of God. If this present world system is
going to be overthrown and God's Kingdom fully
established on this earth, it is the Christians that are
going to have to get it done. BCTE's
fundamental teaching is that three things are
needed to pull this off: The Bible (Word), time, and
money. Our program addresses all three. The next
time a missionary comes to your church, ask yourself
what that missionary is trying to do. I'll tell you.
He/she is trying to raise enough money so that
he/she can have the time to spread
the Word and change the atmosphere
of his/her mission field. What if we had Kingdom
businesses whose profits were used for this work
instead of trying to get it done with just donations?
That is the mission of Bibles Cover The Earth and
we are so happy that you are part of our vision. Now
back to the subject of
rejection.
(5) Don't have false
expectations . This is huge; it is a
very strong ally of rejection. When anyone sees the
potential of multi-level marketing it can be
somewhat overwhelming. The mind goes to calculating
and convinces some of us that we can
retire in a short period of time. If we share
the program with our first contacts and they
say no, the false expectations amplify the effect of the
rejection. We are forced to face those false
expectations and it can be very painful. This is one of
the things that gives MLM's such a bad name. Our dream
of becoming an overnight millionaire is crushed and
we condemn the MLM plan as a scam.
Starting any business takes
time and patience. This is what many people fail to
understand who join a MLM program. The MLM company
may have a great plan and a lot of potential but it
still must be looked at as a business. Bibles Cover
The Earth is no exception. Look at your Embossing
Center as a start-up business that must be treated as a
business, not a get-rich-quick scheme. Don't judge your
success by how quickly you sponsor your first five EC's.
Work the plan. Every month order your Bible Pack and
emboss your Bibles. Take pride in the fact that you are
doing something positive for the Kingdom
of God. Take advantage of every
opportunity to share the plan or invite someone to a
presentation. With time, it will happen; you will have
sponsored your five Embossing Centers. Then as you
continue to emboss your Bibles and work with the
five EC's on your first level, the program will work
just as it has been designed. When we work the program
in this fashion, the business seems to take on
a life of its own. I am not trying to sponsor
people, I am building the Kingdom of God. I'm not
bothering these people; I am doing them a favor. I'm
giving them an opportunity to also build the Kingdom.
I'm making this world a much better place.
Take some time this week to
re-assess your expectations. Are they false and
unrealistic? Do I see my Embossing Center as a business
or was I only going to try this thing for
a month or so?
We have been chosen to rule
and reign with Jesus in His Kingdom for eternity. Are
you ready? I believe that if I can't handle a
business, I'm sure not ready to handle
a Kingdom. That is the beauty of Bibles Cover The
Earth. We are working together with a lot of good people
from many different denominations for a common vision.
We all are in training. Think about that the next time
someone says no. Dust off your sandals and go on.
Somewhere out there is a soul just waiting for
this opportunity. To quote Home Depot's
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In our next newsletter, we will
continue to look at the benefits of Bibles Cover The Earth as a
Christian home-based business, and make some suggestions on how to
approach new people.
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