Teaching leadership, unapologetically, from a Christian perspective.
Rom. 12:8
Starting off with general Bill Hybel’s candor….
Do you have a framework that helps you arrive at an effective, God-honoring decision?
Questions Christians tend to ask:
- Does the Bible say anything about this?
- What would smart advisors, advise me to do? (A story of the young king seeking out wise counsel…he took the advise of the young advisors…hint, hint.
- What experience have you had that would inform you about these decisions?
- Is there a prompting of the Holy Spirit that I need to be paying attention to? (When you’re instep with the spirit, it leads to life and peace.)
At some point, leaders have to make decisions. Leaders cannot be decision averse. For good decisions, you thank everybody, for poor decisions, you take the blame.
Some Leaders learn how to compress all of the above into Leadership Axioms for their up-coming decisions…Nuggets of wisdom…proverbs…
“The best way to destroy my enemy is to turn him into my friend.”– Abraham Lincoln“Promote a clash of ideas”“Reward your best performers, get rid of your non-performers.”– Colin Powell
Are you composing your own leadership axioms? You should. You should coin, complete, and implement them for yourself.
One of Bill’s famous axioms:
“No matter how many times you share it, no matter how passionate you are, Vision Leaks.”
“Get the right people around the table”“Facts are your Friends”– Hybels
The circles of the Willow Community:
Explorers, Beginners, Growers, Christ-centered
The chasm between Growers and Christ-centered folks is enormous. The potential for change is huge for people who no-longer see their life as their own, but as wholly given to the activity of God in the world.
“Leaders have to call fouls.”“Sometimes, leaders have to call fouls on themselves.”“When things feel funky, engage.”– Hybels
Every once in a while, your church needs an action plan that will take your breath away. Dream big vision, then teach it, unleash it and experience it.
Seek the abundant life, talked about in 1 Tim.
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