People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.
God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.
Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.
If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.
We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.
If you're living a yielded life, and if you have the preaching and teaching gift, and you're yielding that to God on a continual basis, that's one of the signs that you're in the right place doing the right thing for the right reasons. If you're doing something in the kingdom, and you rarely feel that, that's a red flag. Something needs to be looked at. Are you using the right gift? Are you using it in the right way? For the right reasons? At the right time? In the right context? If I didn't feel it consistently, that would be quite troubling to me.
The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.
You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.
People join organizations, they leave managers.
Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.
If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?
Build something with enduring value.
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