Today, leadership consultants tell us that if leaders want to be effective, they shouldn?t give orders but rather provide instructions. Here?s a paraphrase from a popular leadership development website: ?Don?t say, ?I need your report by Wednesday morning.? Instead say, ?Please review the data, provide two alternatives for moving forward and my expectation is you […]
Spiritual Leadership is God and People-Focused
One of the writers that I?ve continued to learn from over the years as a person in ministry is Eugene Peterson. Listen to this insight from his book with Marva Dawn, The Unnecessary Pastor: ?The ?herbicides and pesticides? that promised to revolutionize the work of spiritual leadership are rationalism and functionalism–the scholars in their attempt […]
Just Because It Works
Eugene Peterson has been one of those writers who has always had something to say to me. Perhaps it is our shared vocation in ministry. In Marva Dawn?s book with him, The Unnecessary Pastor, Peterson describes how much of the early counsel he was given on how to do ministry didn?t seem to have much […]
Working Playfully
Think about this: grace and works are often seen in tension as it relates to the nature of receiving salvation. Play and work are seen as opposites. Does this imply a common relation between grace and play? This has been a helpful place to think and pray. Listen to this quotation from a recent book […]
Intimacy with God Spills to Others
Moses is one of my favorite characters in the Old Testament.? He steps into his leadership role at a rather advanced age and does so with great reluctance.? Yet, despite his reticence, he enters into his responsibilities to both Israel and the Lord with his whole heart. Along the way, his leadership is marked […]
