Writings on Christian leadership and leader development by Malcolm Webber
In our last Letter, we saw that over the last 20-30 years, there has been considerable focus around the world on evangelism and church planting, producing an extraordinary number of people coming to Christ and new churches being planted. Of course, this is great cause for rejoicing. However, there has not been corresponding attention [...]
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For the last 20-30 years, there has been a great deal of focus around the world on evangelism and church planting. Some of the contributing reasons for this have been:
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By definition, leaders have too many responsibilities on their plate. This is what distinguishes leaders from non-leaders – the ability to think it through and then act. And the courage to do so.
Malcolm Webber
In our previous Letter, we presented a summary of the “5C Goal” and the “4D Process” of healthy leader development. As we saw, Jesus did not simply sit his emerging leaders down in a classroom for months on end and lecture them. Instead He designed an extraordinary collage of learning experiences for them:
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The 5C Goal of Leader Development According to Robert Clinton, over 70 percent of leaders who successfully climb the ladder of leadership influence do not finish well. Some dramatically fail, precipitating public scandal, while the majority of leaders who lose their influence just fade quietly into obscurity. They fall short because in [...]
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If union with Christ is the core reality of Christian leadership, then time with Christ in prayer must be one of its core activities.
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Why does humanity exist? Norman Grubb answers: “Not to become something but to contain Someone.”
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In previous Letters we have discussed the centrality of Jesus Christ in Christian leadership. The following story, taken from Placebo by Howard Pittman, is a powerful expression of this reality.
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In response to our last Letter, one of our Asian friends wrote the following:
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In our last Letter, we saw that just as Jesus lived His life by the life of His Father in Him, so we are to live our Christian lives, by the life of Jesus in us.
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