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The Leader’s Preparation –

August 4, 2016

Henry and Richard Blackaby wrote the book, Spiritual Leadership, Moving People On To God’s Agenda. At the end of each chapter they list concepts from that chapter for consideration.
I was very intrigued as I read the list that ended the chapter on The Leader’s Preparation. As you read this list, you might want to review your own history, present situation, and ideology of leadership.
I think you’ll be encouraged and challenged to let God be God and to allow Him to continue to form you into the leader He needs for now and the future:

  • The greatness of an organization will be directly proportional to the greatness of its leader.
  • Ultimately, leadership is more about “being” than about “doing.”
  • Any strategy for developing spiritual leaders must take into account those emerging leaders currently in their preteens.
  • Most of history’s famous leaders have been decidedly ordinary people.
  • So many of history’s great leaders suffered major failures, crises, and disappointments in their development as leaders that these traumas almost seem prerequisite to leadership success.
  • God can use adversity to build certain qualities deep within one’s character that could not be fully developed in any other way.
  • God seldom intervened when people were about to make mistakes. Rather, he allowed them to fail, but stood ready to redeem them.
  • No experience, good or bad, is ever wasted.
  • People may apply for various leadership positions, but God is the one who ultimately determines which leadership roles they will have.
  • God’s assignments are always based on character – the greater the character, the greater the assignment.

Rick Howerton is a consultant and trainer on small groups. He is founding pastor of The Bridge Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee. He is the author of several books.

Filed Under: Leadership, Personal Growth Tagged With: leadership growth, personal growth as leader, pipeline conference

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