Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part seven) What kind of pastor will lead the Church in our day to salt and light the world? Pastor, what can you do to arouse your church from its slumber and stand in the storm of insolence and juvenility that such a stirring will provoke? For several weeks, […]
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Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part six) We’re examining what may be a unique kind of leadership—and I’m advocating that such leadership is compulsory if the Church is to provide the redemptive influence in American society that she was given, by Jesus, to bring. For fourteen segments, you’ve considered the regressive and infantile culture
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Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part five) If the Church in North America is to become fully alive, awake, and influential, her pastors must become what they were always intended by God to be. Courageous leaders. What does it mean to live and lead courageously, particularly amidst a culture of cowardice? Here’s a quick
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Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part four) What does it take to be a courageous leader, particularly in a culture that has been growing more cowardly, childish, self-absorbed, and immature? Is it possible to live and lead in our Christian context so that spiritual and emotional maturity emerges? If it is, you, as pastor,
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Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part three) What does it take to be a courageous leader, particularly amidst a culture that, for decades, has been steeped in cowardice? Can a pastor, denominational exec, or church leader actually turn the tide of emotional and spiritual regression before the Church loses what’s left of its traction
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Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part two) After illuminating characteristics of a Culture of Cowardice and making sobering observations about how appropriately it applies to the Church, we’ve turned our attention to the kind of leadership that can serve to restore the Church to a place of redemptive influence in society. Edwin Friedman, in
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Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part one) How is a pastor, denominational exec, lay leader, elder, or board member to lead when the culture of your organization is shot through with cowardice? What are the implications for George Barna’s “Revolutionaries” who’ve been so sickened by the self-soothing silliness in churches that, while ministering passionately
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A Culture of Cowardice (part five) How is it that when a prominent Christian leader falls, the whole affair is so often shrouded in darkness? The secrecy seems to persist until the police, the media, the offended party (for example, in a sexual affair), or the victim of the leadership abuse (for example, when money
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#8: A Culture of Cowardice (part four) For the last month, I’ve invited you to consider whether, and to what degree, a Culture of Cowardice has taken hold in the Church. My purpose is to invite you, Christian leader, pastor, denominational executive to a place of uneasiness, even painful discomfort. Why? Pain is necessary for
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#7: A Culture of Cowardice (part three) We’re seven segments into a series on Leadership Courage. This is our third pass exposing a Culture of Cowardice that I believe has dominated much of the Church in North America. I’ve confined my comments to North America because I have very little exposure to non-Western churches and
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