Tag Archives: Leadership
Delegation Is a Part of Discipleship
Since appropriate delegation multiplies leadership potential, the good leader leads best by reproducing himself.
Walter, Trudy, and Gilbert Fremont, Forming a New Generation, p. 150
Pastor, What Are You Communicating?
Nothing is wrong with the message. Nothing can be. It is God’s Word! If they don’t hear the truth, cool music won’t help. If they don’t like the message, drama and video won’t help. Our task is to go on preaching repentance and submission to Christ Jesus as Lord.
The Essential Quality of Spiritual Leadership
The first and essential quality of a herald of the Gospel is ever a thorough broken and contrite heart for it is only after having obtained mercy as guilty criminals, that we are in a position to ‘strengthen the brethren.’
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.
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 True Spiritual Leader
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one’s service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. And that is never done without cost. It involves drinking a bitter cup and experiencing a painful baptism of suffering. The true spiritual leader is concerned infinitely more with the service he can render God and his fellowmen than with the benefits and pleasures he can extract from life. He aims to put more into life than he takes out of it.
Complainers Are Not Leaders
Complainers are rarely leaders themselves; their gripes are usually a symptom of their sense of powerlessness.
J. B. Phillips in Marshall Shelley, ed., Well-Intentioned Dragons p. 120
Are You a First Follower?
Some Fridays are dedicated to fun, and this week’s Fun Friday actually has a serious application. Enjoy watching this humorous video and learning about leadership in a unique way.
(Don’t let me be the lone nut!)
Life Is Worship 