Leadership…
Sometimes you have to let the game come to you. Take what the defense is giving.
I’m not talking about battling the enemy. When facing Satan we are be aggressive and decisive.
I’m speaking primarily about leading those God has entrusted to our care. As leaders we often have bold and daring visions of what the future must look like. However our people are often happy and content where we are now. They rarely see or feel a pressing need for change.
Casting vision, whether for more compelling and passionate worship or for more doing than hearing only, we as leaders, often must take what our defending congregations will give us. Incremental change is often the greatest path toward the radical future God has graciously impregnated within the leaders soul.
We must trust Gods sweet Holy Spirit to be the agent of change. Forced change, begged change is not true transformational change/lasting change. Only through the revelatory power of the Holy Spirit will true and lasting change transpire.
Leader; see the future, yes. But navigate the present.
Prayer, discernment, wisdom, knowledge and understanding from time I’m His Word and Presence are prerequisites for the journey.
Another thought (not really related but doesn’t have the merit to stand alone as a separate post)…
I have heard a lot about redemption and athletes that have blown it. (Vick and others) I love seeing people get a second chance. I love seeing people making well on these chances. However, I’m not too impressed with Christian leaders using redemption so easily. There is no true redemption without the Cross. I am unaware of these athletes spiritual journey. But, again, redemption cannot transpire without godly sorrow, repentance and the reception of pure abounding grace and the gift of His righteousness. I know, I know, I’m over spiritualizing the use of redemption…but someone needs to. Christian leaders and athletes alike cannot have true redemption/reconciliation without repentance and the Cross. There, I said it… thank you for indulging.
September 28, 2010 at 8:06 am
I LOVED the part about redemption. Sometimes we forget the Cross and how could we? God forgive us!
September 28, 2010 at 5:21 pm
The process is just as important as the destination; how you’re getting there determines where you’re going. True Redemption then, will always result in devout allegiance. Perhaps, not in the immediate, but in the duration it must occur. When you see where you’ve been, you start to understand what you have been given. The pain of our past is eclipsed by the potential of our future in Christ. Thus, it lays upon the shoulders of Christ and to those whom He has ordained to bring about the potential that is innate within every believer to do what He has made them to do. Leadership & redemption are mutually inclusive; where the are leaders pointing to the Cross, the power of Christ will always redeem.