Building below the Waterline: Shoring Up the Foundations of Leadership

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“Spiritual formation involves cutting, weeding, digging, raking, and planting—not with a chainsaw or shovel, of course, but through the work of worship, reflection, prayer, study, and a score of other soul-oriented activities described in books by Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, and Henri Nouwen, to name a few.” (source)

“A third trait a leader must possess is the ability to assess situations.” (source)

“‘The way of the Christian leader,’ wrote Henri Nouwen, ‘is not the way of upward mobility in which the world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross. . . . It is not a leadership of power and control, but a leadership of powerlessness and humility in which the suffering servant of God, Jesus Christ, is made manifest.’” (source)

“Train yourself to be godly . . . godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come’ (1 Tim. 4:7–8). I smell spiritual formation in these remarks.” (source)

“The first trait of a leader is the ability to communicate vision” (source)