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Leaders, We Need to Get Out of the Way
One of the great things about a church community is the different gifts and callings that individuals have within it.
God has given some people a knack for thinking and academics.
God has given some an intuitive and uncanny ability to lovingly listen to needs of others.
God has gifted others with an ability to organize people and “get things done.”
Others have an uncanny ability to think way outside the box and push boundaries and question the status quo.
Still others pray and are …
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Working Through the Pain
Still reading the book Failure of Nerve. He’s writing about how leadership is affected by the way people and people groups in our society want the quickest relief possible even if it isn’t the best way forward.
Friedman writes,
For there is no way out of a chronic condition unless one is willing to go through an acute, temporarily more painful, phase….we will naturally choose or revert to chronic conditions of bearable pain rather than face the temporarily more intense …