I found these thoughts by Dan Rockwell at Leadership Freak helpful: Many leaders and managers have a compelling; even perverse interest is fixing things. Average managers solve problems and get results. Great managers build people. A recent conversation with a new manager reminded me that it’s all about people. If you build them, they will fix …
“The true minister of Christ feels impelled to preach the whole truth, because it and it alone can meet the wants of man. What evils has this world seen through a distorted, mangled, man-molded gospel! What mischiefs have been done to the souls of men by men who have preached only one part and not …
When I was training for ministry twenty years ago the phrase ‘a pastor’s heart’ kept coming up again and again. I don’t hear it so much these days. It seems the emphasis now rests on the pastor’s management or entrepreneurial (or coffee-making) skills. Craig Barnes, pastor of Shadyside Presbyterian Church, professor of leadership and ministry …
From John Dickson, posted at the Willow Creek blog: Pastors exercise a unique type of leadership, for the simple reason that ‘structural authority’ hardly features in the biblical teaching about what it means to shepherd God’s people. Generally, leadership employs four tools: (1) ability, the natural flair that got the leader to a position of …
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