Beyond Controller or Cheerleader
Theme of the Week: Becoming a Trusted Leader
Jim Plueddemann
Monday, November 7, 2005
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Key Bible Verse: Some of the members that God has placed in the body of Christ … [include] … those who can get others to work together (1 Corinthians 12:28). Bonus Reading: Romans 12:6-8
What if both George Wright and Joe Kuhl came to see their views of leadership as inadequate and seriously flawed? What if George could move beyond seeing the leader as the person who has the responsibility and power to control people? What if Joe could move beyond seeing the leader as a cheerleader who fills a service function with little or no authority? What if both realized that good leadership is a spiritual gift? What if they saw the leader's job as harmonizing, enhancing, and focusing the spiritual gifts of others toward a common vision of the kingdom of God? How might this work out?
Both would take the task of the kingdom seriously and assume that the leader will be proactive and take initiative, while also being an encourager and developer of people. George could get to know Joe and appreciate his spiritual gifts, while helping him fit into the vision of the mission in northern Nigeria. Joe could begin to grasp the bigger picture and see how he fits with the rest of the team. George would gladly accept many of Joe's suggestions for enhancing the language school curriculum, and Joe would see the benefit of studying grammar.
—Jim Plueddemann in World Pulse
My Response: Which side of my leadership needs work?
Adapted from World Pulse (6/27/03) by permission.
Copyright © 2005 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine. Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
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Lord, help me to promote a shared vision and mesh my energies with those of others to achieve it.
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