True Spiritual Leadership
Theme of the week: Leadership: It Begins on the Inside
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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Who Said It … Robert Fryling
Robert Fryling is publisher of InterVarsity Press and vice president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Bob graduated from Drexel University with a metallurgical engineering degree and later received a master's in intercultural studies from Wheaton Graduate School. With a stint as director of human resources and education for Ford Motor Company, he served for 14 years as national director of campus ministries for InterVarsity. Bob writes, speaks, and teaches in the areas of spiritual formation, leadership, and Christian faith and culture. What He Said … True Spiritual Leadership
One of my favorite topics in high school was geometry. There is a wonderful clarity and a certain precision in geometry that ironically helps explain ambiguity as well. For instance, an ellipse, which looks like an elongated circle, is defined by two distinctly different focal points that are of equal importance. One point is not inferior to the other, and both are needed if there is to be an ellipse.
Spiritual leadership can be understood as an ellipse. One focal point is our inner spiritual life. The other focal point is our outer world and organizational life, what we do and how we do it. Together these focal points define an ellipse that circumscribes our true spiritual leadership. It represents the dynamic tension between our soul and our actions.
Christian leaders need to embrace and embody both spiritual focal points in our internal relationship with God and our external relationship with others. We cannot successfully separate or isolate our interior life from our exterior life.
Adapted from The Leadership Ellipse (IVP, 2010) by permission. All rights reserved by the copyright holder and/or the publisher. May not be reproduced.
Copyright © 2010 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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