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Interview with Dr. James Hawkins PhD, LPC - Defeating Anxiety by figuring out what is IN and what is OUT of your Metron

Published on: 8th March, 2021

Listen as I interview Dr. James Hawkins PhD, LPC, about how we practically go about Managing our Metrons. Particularly in regards to knowing what is actually IN our sphere of responsibility and what is OUTSIDE that sphere. 

Dr. Hawkins shares a powerful personal testimony of how he was overwhelmed during this last year by taking on things that were not put into his Circle [Metron] by God... and how he was able to recalibrate.

It would seem that now more than ever people are pressured into assuming responsibility for EVERYTHING they are made aware of in the world around them. 

People are regularly bombarded with political, societal, spiritual and cultural problems … and extreme pressure to ‘solve’ all of these local and global challenges. No one is designed to handle that level of responsibly other than God.

This is obviously overwhelming and an unhealthy position to find oneself in … 

Dr. Hawkins shares a simple yet liberating process known as 'The Circle Talk'. In this discussion we cover the direct parallels with the concept of Metron and how we can avoid overload and anxiety.

Highlights include:

  • Knowing the Edges of your Metron
  • Living within the limits of my responsibility before God
  • Indicators of poor management of ones Metron
  • Recognizing the signs and causes of powerlessness in our lives
  • A liberating and empowering perspective on the parable of the Good Samaritan
  • Managing your Social Guilt
  • The Providence of Personal Proximity
  • Tools for knowing what is IN and What is OUT of our Metron
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The Metron Manager Project
Recovering the Dignity and Mission of Vocation
The Metron Manager Podcast is a dynamic program that will equip you to become a successful Metron Manager! This transformational program will catalyze your journey to recover the dignity and mission of vocation!

Based on his book, Managing Your Metron, Jonathan Nowlen brings a refreshing and hope filled approach to Theology of Work and the Future of Christian Mission. Crucial concepts and Biblical perspectives are explored and interviews with Christian thought leaders in the workplace will inspire and develop everyone who is called to work in the Kingdom of God.

Jonathan is passionate about recovering the dignity and mission of vocation. He is a career missions leader who has worked in 60 countries over the last few decades. He is the host of the Metron Manager Podcast and author of Managing Your Metron: A practical Theology of Work, Mission and Meaning.

Jonathan is a an experienced strategist, leader, public speaker, coach, consultant and equipper. Currently Jonathan is focused on missionized theology of work and equipping believers to advance the Kingdom through their vocation. After 11 years as executive director of an international, educational non-profit, he founded the Metron Manager Project.

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WELCOME TO THE METRON MANAGER PROJECT!
My Name is Jonathan Nowlen and I am the Founder of the Metron Manager Project and the Author of the book titled Managing Your Metron: A Practical Theology of Work, Mission and Meaning.

The Metron Manager Project is all about equipping you to become who you were originally designed to be and find your place in the Kingdom of God.

“I believe that one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.”
— BILLY GRAHAM (LATE 2000)

God has given me a vision to be part of what many believe is the next great move of God by launching the Metron Manager Project. I have been fully engaged in the cause of Christ and His Kingdom enterprise for over 25 years. As such I have gained wide experience and perspective on the trajectory of the modern mission effort. As a missionary kid I grew up primarily outside the USA in remote and developing countries. After embracing my own call to serve in missions I began working in the socially and economically devastated regions of the former Soviet Union in the early to mid 1990’s. From there I participated in or led missional efforts from Southeast Asia to South America, and from Europe to Africa, covering 60 countries.

I’ve seen the edges of heaven and walked in the streets of hell. I’ve seen the power of God transform lives and nations through average believers like myself who have chosen to hear and obey. I believe that we are entering a new era of mission in spiritual history. This era is marked by the missionizing of believers in the marketplace. ‘On Mission’ is the new mode of every believer in every sphere of society. My book, Managing Your Metron, launched this Metron Manager Project with the aim of providing a reformational understanding of Work, Mission and Meaning.

The vision of the Metron Manager Project is to provide training, resources and theology that will recover the dignity and mission of vocation. Billy Graham’s prescient statement about the next move of God coming through believers in the workplace is a vision of the future that I and many others believe has now arrived. It is time to rethink mission and the Kingdom of God as a new era is upon us. Spiritual history is demanding a broadening of our understanding of what it means to respond to the Great Commission. (Matthew 28:18-20) I invite you to join in this journey to become a Metron Manager and recover the dignity and mission of your vocation.

– Jonathan Nowlen
Founder: The Metron Manager Project
Author: Managing Your Metron: A Practical Theology of Work, Mission and Meaning