God’s act of creation provides a theological foundation for both leadership and mentoring. We’ve looked at creation as the context for: People to experience the love and grace of a giving God. People to exercise their capacities and freedom as God’s image to shape creation itself for God’s glory and their own benefit. People to…
As we ponder the theological roots of Christian leadership, the starting point for understanding the generosity of God’s love is creation itself. If our leadership is an act of love in which we help others discover their gifts and follow God in loving service, we must reflect on how God has as led us first…
Genesis 1 and 2 Foundational to Christian leadership is creating an environment for meaningful vocation. The creation narrative states, “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over…”. Our original vocation was to reflect God to all creation and manage it for His glory. To…
Our education system is not turning out leaders because it is systematically starving the creativity out of children. Back to our theological argument of looking to God as our model for leadership, leaders must create because God began by creating. Leaders create an environment of creativity, as I quoted Ken Robinson in a post last…
As Christian leaders, creating a climate of creativity is foundational. If we are looking to God’s relationship to us as a theological basis for leadership development, the world is created as a context, a climate where we can share His life as His image in a relational context. What does such a climate look like?…
Genesis Leaders create. If God is our example of leadership, we have to begin here. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Why? All creation is essentially the time and space for developmental relationships to form and God to share the extent of His glory in a relational context. While leaders cannot…
Galatians 4 Christian Leadership means taking the long view, if we want to follow God’s manner of dealing with us. Galatians 4:4 “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5in order to redeem those who were under the…
“The root problem in America and the world is the lack of real leadership.” These words were meant as an indictment of “self-proclaimed leaders” of our political systems which seems to be guided more by self-preservation, personal aggrandizement and acquisition of power, than by any sense of the common good of mankind as a whole. …
Vulnerability is critical to leadership and mentoring. Brene Brown in the TED talk on the previous post (Mentoring, Leadership and Vulnerability) summarized her research on what enabled people to live “whole-hearted” lives: And so here’s what I found. What they had in common was a sense of courage. And I want to separate courage and…
“Why is vulnerability necessary for both mentoring and leadership?” I’ve been on vacation a couple of weeks and my daughter-in-law recommended this video by Brene Brown. Take a look and share how you would connect Brene’s experience and research with mentoring or leadership. In applying this to Christian mentoring or Christian leadership, does vulnerability have…
