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Armorbearers: The Revolutionary Choices of Servant-Leadership
There is a desperate need for effective leadership in our nation, in our churches, in our families, and even in ourselves.
The Bible uses the term armorbearer to describe leaders who offer help, support, and strength to those around them. These types of servant-leaders are needed now more than ever.
Using Scripture as the guide, Armorbearers takes readers down a path of self-discovery, pursuing greatness by developing character that is forged on the anvil of self-restraint and tested through the heat of self-discipline.
Packed with inspiring stories and powerful lessons, Armorbearers reveals the four revolutionary choices every leader must make, risking their own significance in order to encounter God in life-altering ways.
Are you ready to become an armorbearer?
The Bible uses the term armorbearer to describe leaders who offer help, support, and strength to those around them. These types of servant-leaders are needed now more than ever.
Using Scripture as the guide, Armorbearers takes readers down a path of self-discovery, pursuing greatness by developing character that is forged on the anvil of self-restraint and tested through the heat of self-discipline.
Packed with inspiring stories and powerful lessons, Armorbearers reveals the four revolutionary choices every leader must make, risking their own significance in order to encounter God in life-altering ways.
Are you ready to become an armorbearer?
172 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 14, 2014
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November 22, 2014
Ok, I'm an aficionado of books about armour-bearing. I've written one of my own: God's Panoply: The Armour of God and the Kiss of Heaven. So on this topic I don't give out five stars unless I'm really, really impressed. I love the stories and anecdotes scattered liberally throughout, though the American parochialism of them did get a tad tedious after a while.
That minor quibble aside, this book is in other respects quite wonderful. Unlike other books touching on the topic, it really emphasises the mutuality of armour-bearing. And it mentions something that hadn't really hit me before. While I'd realised that Jonathan's armour-bearer is unnamed, it hadn't occurred to me that's there's an irony in the fact he remains anonymous while the cliffs he climbs are named!
Herein lies one of the themes of Watford's fine book: choosing to risk our significance. The willingness to sacrifice our significance resonated with me as an area I need to work on.
Another theme is choosing to speak redemption and the third is choosing to exercise self-restraint. On the last topic, I was impressed by the story of Nathaniel Greene who used the 'Fabian strategy' during the latter part of the American revolutionary war. Avoiding the glory of striking a decisive blow, he wore out Cornwallis' army - though came in for immense criticism along the way.
However, it was the detailed description of the ground that Jonathan and his armour-bearer took that was of most interest. That geography is something I'm just going to have to research more!
That minor quibble aside, this book is in other respects quite wonderful. Unlike other books touching on the topic, it really emphasises the mutuality of armour-bearing. And it mentions something that hadn't really hit me before. While I'd realised that Jonathan's armour-bearer is unnamed, it hadn't occurred to me that's there's an irony in the fact he remains anonymous while the cliffs he climbs are named!
Herein lies one of the themes of Watford's fine book: choosing to risk our significance. The willingness to sacrifice our significance resonated with me as an area I need to work on.
Another theme is choosing to speak redemption and the third is choosing to exercise self-restraint. On the last topic, I was impressed by the story of Nathaniel Greene who used the 'Fabian strategy' during the latter part of the American revolutionary war. Avoiding the glory of striking a decisive blow, he wore out Cornwallis' army - though came in for immense criticism along the way.
However, it was the detailed description of the ground that Jonathan and his armour-bearer took that was of most interest. That geography is something I'm just going to have to research more!
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