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The Trouble with Biblical Leadership Models
I am drawn intuitively, personally, and theologically to complexity theory as a substantial means of explaining and understanding organizational life. I particularly react to the premise of leadership as a single leader with particular traits and characteristics who leverages these in order to get people—who, of course, couldn’t otherwise figure out on their own how or…
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Prayer: Leader’s Most Important Attribute
A recent Sunday School class I was visiting engaged in a discussion about desirable characteristics of Christian leadership. Each class member was asked to rate five characteristics in order from least important to most important. The leader then tallied the totals and the class discussed the differences revealed in the exercise. The five characteristics were prayerful, persuasive,…
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Euangelion
The Gospel is a Person. One who has come to us to tell us that as bearers of the divine image, we were created to enjoy the love and intimacy of our divine good Creator. The Person reveals to us that this Truth about ourselves is foreign and unfamiliar. That somehow in the scope of…
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The world doesn’t need “great” leaders
Leadership will not be successful ultimately because leaders are smarter, better informed, more experienced, or more creative than others. True success comes when leaders become empty, willing, attentive, and obedient vessels. In the Bible, the ultimate success of leaders came from obedience to the voice of God. One of the main lessons from biblical leaders such as Moses, Joshua, David,…
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Arminians & Calvinists: Disagree without Dividing
Ray Comfort wrote a Facebook post called “Why I’m neither Calvinist nor Arminian”. The basic gist of the article is summed up in his conclusion that “every moment that you and I spend arguing about theological interpretation is time we have lost forever that could have been spent in prayer for the unsaved or in…
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Making Good Tables
Some musings about holiness, work, and redemption. I am doing some work with a university that is unashamedly in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition and that is more and more making the idea of the redemption of the world the core of its identity. So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the link between holiness and…
