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Knocking Over the Leadership Ladder
We have a climbing disease! We have a ladder that everyone is supposed to climb and the impact is everywhere. Business and managment cultures have influenced how we build and lead our Christian organizations and churches. The resulting impact has changed the way we see the tasks, processes, and results of our Kingdom work.
Too often we have made leadership into a person. Leadership is not a person, but rather a series of functions fulfilled by a group of people. After all, the Church is a community.
Be the leader God created you to be, not the one the world says you should be. While this book will challenge many of your assumptions about leadership in the Church, you will find a healing refreshment in learning to be who you already are!
Too often we have made leadership into a person. Leadership is not a person, but rather a series of functions fulfilled by a group of people. After all, the Church is a community.
Be the leader God created you to be, not the one the world says you should be. While this book will challenge many of your assumptions about leadership in the Church, you will find a healing refreshment in learning to be who you already are!
213 pages, Paperback
Published September 15, 2006
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March 1, 2011
At first, I thought that this book was an overreaction to American individualism. But as I continued to read, I grew more and more appreciative of the nuanced ways that Paul describes our society and the insights that he has gained from others. I still think that this book is an overreaction, but less of one that I thought. There is great material on leadership in the community of God, the concept of stewardship, and what a church that embodied these values might look like.
Ford's material on sarcasm, endemic to our society, should be required reading. I realized that just because sarcasm does not hurt my feelings does not mean that it doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. That being said, I think calling for a moratorium on sarcasm is not the answer. There are some points that can only be made using sarcasm or irony, particularly when dealing with weaknesses in a societal or individual worldview. In fact, God uses sarcasm to devastating effect in the Old Testament. When the Jewish people, who were engaging in idol worship, cried out to God because they were being oppressed by other nations, God told them: "Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them rescue you in the time of your torment." (Judges 10:14) So, I think our view on sarcasm needs to be a little more balanced, but I am thankful to Paul for pointing out the oversight in our American worldview.
Ford's material on sarcasm, endemic to our society, should be required reading. I realized that just because sarcasm does not hurt my feelings does not mean that it doesn't hurt anyone's feelings. That being said, I think calling for a moratorium on sarcasm is not the answer. There are some points that can only be made using sarcasm or irony, particularly when dealing with weaknesses in a societal or individual worldview. In fact, God uses sarcasm to devastating effect in the Old Testament. When the Jewish people, who were engaging in idol worship, cried out to God because they were being oppressed by other nations, God told them: "Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them rescue you in the time of your torment." (Judges 10:14) So, I think our view on sarcasm needs to be a little more balanced, but I am thankful to Paul for pointing out the oversight in our American worldview.
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