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A few years ago, our ministry team was engaged in intense strategic meetings that would determine the direction of our ministry around the globe. We had the benefit of “fresh eyes” as three millennials had recently joined our team. From their perspective, several of the ministry methods that I’d helped to pioneer over more than

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Courageous leaders have learned to govern themselves, to manage their emotional reactivity, to restrain their impulsivity. Like the impulse for revenge, to employ terrorist tactics, or zero-sum strategies. Courageous leaders will resist the ever-present impulse to resist another’s resistance. Think about that for a minute.  When you encounter someone resisting you, what you stand for,

We’re considering Jesus’ example of governing himself, managing his emotional reactivity, and restraining his impulsivity while in Gethsemane.  Jesus is warring in prayer alone. Scripture records that, being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. [Luke 22:44] I don’t know what all that means

Courageous leaders have learned to govern themselves, to manage their emotional reactivity, and to restrain their impulsivity. There is probably no more spectacular example than Jesus in Gethsemane. [Matthew 26:36-46] Entering the garden, Jesus is feeling the weight of the immense spiritual battle bearing down upon him. So, he asks his three most dependable, most

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Leaders go first. Which means they GO.  Leaders move into the unknown. They realize they cannot afford to wait until there’s no risk left. Guided by their values and attending to their well-functioning moral compass, they move. This is what my friend Tom chose to do. He responded tenderly, mercifully, patiently, lovingly, forgivingly, and kindly.