Leadership Courage Series #19:

1 Comment / Christian Leadership, Courage, Leadership Skills, Leading, responsibility, Uncategorized

Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part ten) Where and when did the role of Pastor become so closely associated with the characteristics of terrible leadership: anemic, people-pleasing, comfort-oriented, weakness-honoring, safety-bound, consensus-collecting, approval-seeking, distress-abating caretaking? How did we get from the decisive, principle-inspired boldness of Jesus with the money-changers [Mt 21], Paul and the riot […]

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Leadership Courage Series #18:

Change dynamics, Christian Leadership, Leadership Skills, Leading, Strategy

Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part nine) Examining courageous leadership, a fifth principal is: Don’t “push on the rope”: the unmotivated are invulnerable to insight.  Watching ministers lead for more than thirty years, it’s breathtaking how diligently and fruitlessly so many of us labor to lead those who are least-motivated to follow. No wonder

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Leadership Courage Series #17:

2 Comments / Christian Leadership, Courage, Leader Development, Leadership Skills, Leading

Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice (part eight) We’re investigating a fifth leadership concept: Don’t “push on the rope”: the unmotivated are invulnerable to insight. This perspective is of central importance to pastors who are committed to lead their congregations through change.  Maybe it’s because the religious culture’s assumption is that the shepherd’s role is

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Leadership Courage Series #14:

4 Comments / character development, Christian Leadership, Courage, Emotional Maturity, Leader Development, Leadership Skills, Leading, responsibility

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 Courage Series #13:

1 Comment / character development, Christian Leadership, Courage, Discipleship, Leader Development, Leadership Skills, Leading, responsibility

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 Courage Series #12:

2 Comments / character development, Courage, Emotional Maturity, Leadership Skills, Leading, responsibility

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 Courage Series #11:

3 Comments / character development, conflict, Emotional Maturity, Leadership Skills, Leading, perspective, responsibility

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 Courage Series #10:

4 Comments / character development, Leadership Skills, Leading, perspective, responsibility

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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