I’ve been searching everywhere for an accessible (cheap) study or resource on leadership. Needless to say I don’t have the best “quiet time” discipline. Today, up earlier than normal I made coffee and sat at my desk with Eugene Peterson’s “The Message” in front of me. I have zero luck at picking good scripture to read, and not thinking about the leadership subject, I said a quick, hopefull, incomplete prayer to read something I needed. The spine of this particular bible is broken in Titus so I started reading Paul’s words to him. “I left you in charge… so you could complete what I left halfdone.”
Imagine that a book on leadership, one mentor speaking encouragement to his charge. The main themes expressed were how to:
- Pick good leaders
- Encourage the church to live to a higher standard
- God is ready for us to spread the word of Salvation available to everyone
- Calm rebellious uprisings
Chapter 3 “It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stuborn dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back.” Sounds like ignorance, lust, and anger issues, how relevant is that? “But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing.”
Remember: God picked a man with your personality and skill set, you for this fight. Fight well and fight all the way through. And remember to stretch first, you don’t want to pull anything.
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Can you really pray an “incomplete prayer”? Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
“incomplete” as in I didn’t pray in the form of the model prayer Luke 11:2, “And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven…”
I just threw up a (forgive the expression) “Hail Mary” and hoped for the best.
I don’t have a lot of stuff on what the bible says about leadership, the best way I’ve ever heard it put as far as scripture is there aren’t any on liners in the bible about leadership, it’s just one big guide. I do, however, have tons of stuff on secular leadership, which I think can apply to the church.
Maybe after I email you about my blog we can trade resources!