Leaders Are Marked by Vision
Leaders are marked by vision. Vision makes the difference between leadership and misleadership. Vision includes goals and strategies developed with team members. Vision dreams the most possible dream, not the impossible dream. Leaders recognize that vision gives...The pleasures and pains of teaching
Many people have asked me how the transition has gone from teaching theology and apologetics in seminary to teaching undergraduate pastoral theology in my new job at Lancaster Bible College. My answer: Everything about the new job has been beyond my expectations, and...Vision is Critical to the Life of the Church
“A vision gives life, and if there is no vision, the seeds of death are being sown and it is just a matter of time until death will prevail.” Harris Lee, Effective Church Leadership, 131.Evil Leadership is Always Exposed
Leadership which is evil, while it may succeed temporarily, always carries with it the seeds of its own destruction…Misleadership is something false coming through a strong personality, and the stronger the personality, the worse the ultimate crash. B. L....Read more
I’m convinced that the big crisis for the church of Jesus Christ is not that we are easily dissatisfied but that we are all too easily satisfied. We have a regular and perverse ability to make things work that are not and should not be working. We learn to adjust to things we should alter. We learn to be okay with things we should be confronting. We learn to avoid things we should be facing. We would rather be comfortable than to hold people accountable. We swindle ourselves into thinking that things are better than they are, and in so doing we compromise the calling and standards of the God we say we love and serve. Like sick people who are afraid of the doctor, we collect evidence that points to our health when really, in our heart of hearts, we know we are sick. So we settle for a human second best, when God, in grace, offers us so much more.