Tuesday, April 5, 2011
But I don't care about people... Post for Wk 3
I found this guy, Luis Paulau on an apologetics website. Paulau shares good news to anyone that will listen. I found a couple of certain quotes that I liked and wanted to share one that got me thinking about Leadership:
“Leadership is not about evangelism it is about making connections. He (Luis) is humble, down to earth, and wants to serve God with his whole life.” This man has spread God’s message for 50 years and he has preached the gospel to 20 million people in seventy countries. I stand back and say, yeah this guys is a leader. But he himself does not seem to have the Charisma, the anointing, that we would normally associate with “leaders.” Do we make leadership too complicated when we talk about how we need to know a model, identify a style, and add “managing teams” to our ministry repertoire’s? What are the fundamental aspects to leading people? What are the fundamental aspects that draw people to us? In reflecting up on this, isn’t leadership simply listening to Jesus and obeying? True leadership is not found in strength but weakness. Not found in ourselves but in obedience to the living God. It is only found when we come to our end and say Jesus I trust you. Whether things are going the way that I think that they should or when they are going in the opposite direction I will take time to listen to you and obey what you have told me.
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Justin I appreciated your thoughts about true leadership is following Jesus. Sometimes we complicate it to be so much more then that when in all actuality it is not. Its as simple as following the greatest leader of them all. I sometimes wonder what our churches would look like if we would just focus on following the Lord. What would our pastors look like? What would our sermons, our worship, our outreaches to the lost all look like if we truly followed Jesus? Instead pastors and spiritual leaders go to conferences and see the "next great thing" and they try to follow that. This causes leaders not to be true to whom God has called them to be. And when the "next great thing" fails them they are left empty and broken and looking to fill this void with something new. Meanwhile their congregations are like sheep running around aimlessly. But imagine the consistency that would come to our spiritual lives if pastors would just be faithful in following Jesus as their leader and remain faithful to who they have been gifted and called to be.
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