1st AUGUST 2022
Kingfisher Leadership news Learning the lessons:
KEEPING THE VISION ALIVE
The lessons of balance: Very little is as exciting and motivating as receiving a call to leadership. Take Moses, for example. After tending his father-in-law’s sheep for forty years, he received a call from God at the Burning Bush: “So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” Exodus 3:10). Long, well-known story short, Moses Everyday ended up leading the people out of Egypt, leadership is through the Red Sea and on to Mount often more Sinai and beyond…to the very boarders of about frustrating the Promised Land.
List three practical steps you can take to make sure that you are getting the balance right:
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The lesson of attention to detail: List three practical steps you can take to make sure that you are getting the attention to detail right:
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And yet, it was not long before the euphoria of escaping from Egypt gave way to legislating about mildew appearing on the walls of houses (Leviticus 14:43), swellings and scabs and shiny spots on people’s skin (Leviticus 13:3), and women’s menstrual cycles (Leviticus 15:19-33).
The reality is, Moses’ experience is quite familiar to those of us who are in leadership positions. We start with the call to lead God’s people and end up, all-too-soon bogged down in the unglamorous trivia of hearing about mildew on walls and boils on backsides! It is a common experience of leadership that we nd ourselves less and less involved in bold moves forward, taking ground from the enemy and marching on to the promised land, and more and more involved in unglamorous, frustrating ‘trivia’. We didn’t sign up to deal with mildew on walls! The descent from the heights of ‘bring my people out of Egypt’ to identifying and legislating over di erent types of boils accounts for far more people stepping out of leadership than outright opposition or persecution.
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