Here’s a great leadership question:
“Is what got us here going to take us where we are going?”
I’ve got to ask myself that all the time.
Is the ministry style that brought Good Shepherd to 1500 people per Sunday what it will take to move us to 2000 per Sunday and beyond?
Is the kind of leadership I offer to staff and congregation — the kind, again, that has helped us arrive at this current destination — the right kind of leadership to take us to a new destination?
The answer to both those questions is probably “Yes.” And “No.”
“Yes” to those things that are core: faithfulness to Scripture, openness to the Spirit, passion for new people.
“No” to some of the things that are more ancillary. Any leader who is not constantly learning, growing, and then adapting leadership style is not much of a leader to begin with. So I hope to be a different kind of leader in October of 2010 than I am today.
As I ask that leadership question in this place, perhaps you should ask it in yours.
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Hey Talbot,
I like that. It reminds me of the analogy of the new wine in new wineskins. The Spirit is always desiring us to blow with Him “where it will” and He wants us to be flexible enough to blow with Him. Often we are those who say “the old wine is good enough”. As you said, not the fundamental truths, or even the fundamental WAY of life in the body of Christ, but we have not arrived yet. May we hear His Spirit as He leads us into all truth. Even when it hurts.