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Following a guy who actually does stuff

Posted by on Jan 7, 2011 in blog links, discipleship | 2 comments

Sol at “Looking for Church” asks very good questions and gives an excellent example in his post “Who Was The Leader.”

His post is about leadership. No, not that kind of leadership. Not the kind of leadership in which the person up front or the person at the top tells the others what to do.

Sol wrote about the kind of leadership where someone is serving and others want to follow his example.

He writes:

At lunch today, I experienced a great form of leadership. Leadership isn’t telling others what to do, but doing something, and showing others how to do it, among other things. Those two things are what I am thinking about today, so that is as deep as we’ll go for now.

To the story: My friends and I have been talking, and discussing a lot of things lately, but not really doing much. Well today I got an email; “I have an idea, want to come along?”

My friend and I left work, grabbed a quick lunch, and headed over to an older man’s home, who actually does stuff instead of just talking about it.

Yep. That’s leadership. That’s leading because it’s serving. Anything else (besides serving) is not leading according to Jesus.

Related posts:

  1. When good motives go bad: Further thinking about the pulpit and other churchy type stuff
  2. Church Stuff
  3. What’s with this “small group” stuff anyway?
  4. Another good post on leadership

2 Comments

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  1. 1-7-2011
    Jeremy Myers says:

    I was looking through your Blogroll to see who you read, and noticed that one of the links goes to a “dating website.” Lovebrokethu. Nice!

  2. 1-7-2011
    Alan Knox says:

    Jeremy,

    That was for my single readers. 🙂

    Seriously, thanks for letting me know.

    -Alan