Leading

Compendium (part five)

Leadership Courage Series # 39 The fourth trait to lead effectively in a Church caught in a culture of cowardice: Stand, as an exemplar, in the sabotage and backlash that must come. A Christian leader is not simply someone who gets things done or who gets others to behave in desirable ways, in a religious […]

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Compendium (part four)

Leadership Courage Series # 38 We’re reviewing nine traits essential to lead effectively in a Church caught in a culture of cowardice.   Three: Promote healthy differentiation within the church or system you lead. Healthy differentiation means to take full responsibility for your own being and destiny.  Pastor, this means that you will discard the ministerial

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Compendium (part three)

Leadership Courage Series # 37 We’re making a brief, final lap through nine traits called for from pastors and influencers in the Church in North America.  The second is: Take full responsibility for your own emotional being and destiny. Pastor, more than you know, you are the model of what maturity in Christ is.  Regardless

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Go First! (part six)

Leadership Courage Series # 34 Last time, I used the phrase “do what’s right because it’s right, whether it works or not.”  I learned this from a friend, who says he learned it from the Lord.  His wife had lost both her parents to cancer. One after the other.  Suddenly.  Unexpectedly. The impact was devastating. 

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Go First! (part three)

Leadership Courage Series # 31  We’re looking at a ninth characteristic of courageous Christian leadership.  A leader moves.  She takes action.  Rather than taking a straw poll to see what the prevailing opinions are, a leader will go first.  And sometimes this means going alone… for a while. It’s nothing special. It what leaders do.

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Go First! (part one)

Leadership Courage Series # 29 Could you imagine the impact of a largely leaderless Church for, say, 400 years?  Well, look around… We’re heading for the home stretch on this examination of courageous Christian leadership. The impetus for my challenges and observations is Edwin Friedman’s wonderful book: A Failure of Nerve.  Thus far, we’ve made

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