Category Archives: Dan B. Allender
True Humility
Humility comes from humiliation, not from the choice to be self-effacing or a strong urge to give others the credit.
The Terrible Secret of Leadership
This is the terrible secret about leadership and life: we achieve brokenness by falling off our throne. To be broken is not a choice; it is a gift. I don’t know anyone who has made the decision to be broken and achieved it as an act of the will.
The Expensive Cost of Leadership
Leading is very likely the most costly thing you will ever do…. But if you want to love God and others, and if you long to live your life now for the sake of eternity, then there is nothing better than being a leader.
Growth in Character
Growth in character occurs to the degree that we accept being forgiven as greater than life itself. If the gift is not what I see but how I am seen by God, then my gratitude knows no limits. It can grow immeasurably as I suffer through the loss of illusions, the death of dreams, and the shattering of success.
How We Shouldn’t View Our Leaders
We require our leaders to be perfect — or at least much more perfect than we are — and then we reserve the right to pick them clean like vultures that have patiently waited for the wounded beast to stop twitching.
The Benefit of Running from Problems
The benefit of running [from our problems] is that it magnifies our inability to escape ourselves. Run to the ends of the earth — the same internal war and the same battle with God remain. The only change is that now the warfare has taken on new geography.
Prophet, Priest and King
The threefold misery of humanity resulting from sin (that is, ignorance, guilt, and oppression and bondage of sin) required this threefold office. Ignorance is healed through the prophetic office, guilt through the priestly, and the oppression and bondage of sin through the kingly. The prophetic light scatters the darkness of error; the merit of the priest removes the guilt and obtains reconciliation for us; the power of the king takes away the bondage of sin and death. The prophet shows God to us; the priest leads us to God; and the king joins us together with God, and glorifies us with him. The prophet illuminates the mind by the spirit of enlightenment; the priest soothes the heart and conscience by the spirit of consolation; the king subdues rebellious inclinations by the spirit of sanctification.
Francois Turrettini in Dan B. Allender, Leading with a Limp, p. 186
Life Is Worship 