Earlier this year, Leadership journal asked pastors, "What challenges do you face in the area of leadership training?" The nearly unanimous response was the challenge of motivating leaders to be trained.
Why are board members and other lay leaders not motivated to receive training? Most leaders want to serve well and would benefit from biblical and strategic leadership training in the unique context ...
In one of the spiritual gifts lists, Romans 12:8, the apostle Paul essentially says, "If you have the spiritual gift of leadership, lead with it, and lead with all diligence." I've come up with a partial list of what spiritually gifted leaders do if they develop and use their leadership gifts.
1. Leaders cast a God-honoring vision.Spiritually gifted leaders live in such a way that God invariably ignites ...
A few years ago, I began to notice major differences
in the ways gifted leaders led their teams. They all had the spiritual gift
of leadership referred to in Romans 12:8, but they approached the challenges
of leadership differently.
About the time I was making this observation, the management team at Willow
Creek gave me a leadership book for my birthday. (The year before, they had
hired an Elvis ...
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