Passion,Humility,Adaptability (Nathan McWherter)

“Passion, humility and adaptability are critical characteristics for influencing and leading in times when you have no formal authority.” I have heard it said that in leadership we cannot rest on our position. Seeing that in many circles Christian leadership has begun to experience less inherent authority I was intrigued by this statement. Passion is contagious. When we operate within our passion it spreads to other people and they begin to become passionate, if you communicate well they become passionate about what you are passionate about. Humility is a right understanding of yourself, arrogance and pretension seems to turn people off to your leadership especially in this day and age. Although confidence can be confused with arrogance, they are not the same thing. Humility is not a lower understanding of yourself and your abilities but just the right understanding. Finally adaptability which I think is the ability to be flexible, however the article phrased it as not having your worth set in the achievement of goals or outcomes. I think that this is an interesting approach to viewing adaptability. When we put a significant amount of worth into a certain outcome we may become rigid in holding onto our practices or our programs. Allowing certain things to pass may allow us to do the greatest thing instead of the just the okay or even the good thing. When we make decisions that are the most effective, then those who follow us realize that we want to do what is best, not what will bring us glory or identity.