Kingfisher Leadership
1st December 2020
Kingfisher Leadership news THE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY Part 2 - Finishing Well In recent months there have been a series of shock announcements in the Christian press - many of which have become news items in the secular press - about Christian leaders who have fallen. High profile, with years of faithful, anointed service, and yet ending in disappointment, damaging themselves and the Body of Finishing Christ in the process.
Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.” (Philippians 3: 13-14, NLT)
Stay accountable. ‘There’s a crisis of accountability in organizations today, a crisis of epidemic well proportions," (Roger Connors, corequires us to : founder and former CEO of Partners In Why is it that so many pastors Leadership). And yet, many people and leaders have not managed to misunderstand accountability. They see practice what they have it as gathering people around them who • Stay preached? What do we need to will see things their way and support build into our lives to ensure that accountable and affirm them when the going gets we finish well? Most of us start tough. What is accountability? It is a • Stay realistic off with great intentions, but check and balance system to protect us remember,
• Stay optimistic from harm from ourselves and others. We do this by being open to what we “Finishing is better than starting. are thinking and doing so we can Patience is better than receive encouragement and reproof, pride.” (Ecclesiastes 7:8) when needed. Leaders that fall have generally stepped away from genuine In the October edition of accountability and are operating in an Leadership News, we looked at the ‘shadow environment where no one is able to hold them to side’ of leadership and how we can slip into account. We need to encourage a system of people flirting with sin, without realising how easy it who have earned the right through track record is for sin to suck us in. In that edition, we and maturity in the faith to ask the challenging and looked at the three most prevalent aspects difficult questions of leaders.
of the ‘shadow life’. In this edition we shall look at three positive safety measures all Reflect: Are you clear to whom you are leaders need to have in place to ensure that accountable? Are you accountable to more than we reach the end of the race well.
one person and if so, how is the overall accountability spread? Are you clear what the “ No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not boundaries and expectation are regarding that all I should be, but I am focusing all my accountability? energies on this one thing: 1