1 May 2021
Kingfisher Leadership news Signs of health:
Leadership - growth and health As has often been said, ‘Everything rises and falls on leadership’. Leadership sets the pace, the attitude, the culture of the organisation, group or community. As the Bible puts it:
• We have a con dent expectation of growth, not just a ‘keeping things going’ mentality.
“Without wise leadership, a nation falls; there is safety in having many advisers.” (Proverbs 11:14, NLT) Godly leadership encourages and enables people to focus on the right things and to grow in healthy ways. However, wise leaders recognise that their real focus is not growth, but health. Growth is, in fact, God’s Wise leaders department, whereas health is the recognise responsibility of each one of us, and, principally, the leader whose role it is to that their encourage and enable health in the real focus is community.
• We have an excitement about what God is going to do next among us, rather than a ‘nothing ever changes’ mentality • We have a passion for seeing society impacted and changed for good rather than a ‘what could we possibly do?’ mentality
not growth, but health.
• We care about each other and seek ways to support and encourage each other, rather than an ‘every person for themselves’ mentality
In God’s Kingdom, the end never justi es the means. Nehemiah was engaged in the great talk of rebuilding the wall, but when he discovered that social injustice was rampant, he stopped the work (Nehemiah 5:1-13) because of the more pressing need to address hat was wrong in the community Too great a fear of the personal cost. There is always a cost attached to doing anything worthwhile, and that includes enduring the opposition and leading by example - two things that featured in Nehemiah’s story (see Neh. 4).
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Leaders can make a number of mistakes when it comes to health: Too great a focus on the goal
• We feel able to take risks, both in terms of personally stepping up and trying something new, and in terms of us as a group taking faith steps, rather than than a ‘don’t volunteer for anything’ mentality
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