Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
The Critical Nature of Leadership
Layton Talbert The storyline is all too familiar. A well-known leader of God’s people — popular, well intentioned, and godly — forges an alliance with a notorious enemy of Biblical truth. Why? In the interest of unity, he says. An act of magnanimity and compassion — of “getting along” — no doubt. He even sought…
Read MoreDeveloping Leaders in the Church
Ken Hay Through the years church-growth specialists have published articles, books, and surveys that demonstrate a vital principle: when the pastor is the leader of the church and is inspiring the lay people to be the ministers, that church has growth potential. But on the other hand, when the people become the leaders and the…
Read MoreServant Leadership
Gordon Dickson His boss had given him a sharp reprimand. He probably felt like giving up. After all, he had been asked to do something he had never done before. He was also instructed to go somewhere he had never been. The boss had even asked him to locate a person whose name even the…
Read MoreThe Responsibility to Influence
Tim Locke As a young man I found that my concept of leadership had developed through the personalities that influenced my life. I have been under leaders who were direct, intense personalities, and I have had leaders who were gracious and gentle. In trying to decide what kind of leader to be, I often refer…
Read MoreThree Men and an Arrow
Gil Fremont How should Christian leaders relate to secular leaders? Chuck Colson wrote in Kingdoms in Conflict about his days in the Nixon White House and described how easy it was to manipulate conservative religious leaders by inviting them to meet with the president, then stroking them with vague promises and reassurances. It was a…
Read MoreServing Your Generation
Thomas Overmiller There is an interesting statement tucked away in Paul’s message at the synagogue of Pisidian Antioch. “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption; but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption” (Acts 13:36-37).…
Read MoreServing Your Generation
Thomas Overmiller There is an interesting statement tucked away in Paul’s message at the synagogue of Pisidian Antioch. “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption; but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption” (Acts 13:36-37).
Read MoreSpiritual Leadership
Jim Oesterwind “One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren” (Matthew 23.9). It is interesting that the Pharisees seemed to be quite accurate in their teaching. Jesus told His disciples that they should observe and do what the Pharisees told them (23.3). It’s just that the works of the Pharisees did not…
Read MoreAround the Web–Nov 16, 2012
Religious freedom, tolerance, free speech: In Canada, a ‘watershed’ religious freedom win Matters of morality, including the perceived morality of certain types of sexual behavior, are topics for discussion in the public forum. Freedom of speech does not just protect polite speech. Hopefully this is the end of this particular case, but if the complainant…
Read MoreA Biblical Philosophy of Church Planting
by Otis R. Holmes Every subject has a philosophy. It may not be spelled out, but it is there just the same — whether good or bad, right or wrong. Church planting has its own philosophy — godly or worldly. Of course, the true philosophy of church planting is to be Biblical. But what is…
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