A Must for
All Leaders
I
originally posted this over two years ago. As I was reviewing the blogs for
this week, all focusing on leadership, I reread this and it was important for
me, personally.
Nearly
fifty years ago, John W. Gardner wrote the following in his book entitled, Excellence; “In short, the varied leadership of our society must come to recognize
that one of the great functions of leaders is to help a society to achieve the
best that is in it.”[1]
There is no place
where that statement takes on greater significance than in the church.
Significantly, it is not directed at a single leadership level or age group
within the church.
Simply put: Leaders must lead.
The
purpose of their leadership is also very clear. Leaders must lead an organization/church
“to achieve the best that is in it.”
It
does not take an above average IQ to state the obvious: As followers of Jesus Christ, Christ is in us
and is head of the church. Therefore our responsibility is to be the best of
who we are and do what we were created to do.
This
requires us to go deeper than the surface issues. As leaders and part of the church, we must
first get over ourselves. We are not just called to be the best of
who we are - - we are called to be the
best of who HE is in us.
It
is also very important to remember that people are not just drawn to churches
where there is Godly Leadership. Most are looking for places where their
leadership will be recognized, trusted and developed.
“When those of the church begin to live as
followers of Christ and take up the responsibility of leading, we will not have
to tell anyone about His church. People will be drawn to His church in numbers
that will stagger us.”
[1]
Gardner, John W. Excellence (New York, Perennial Books, 1961) 150
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