Practicing Christian Leadership, Student Workbook, SW11

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Nurturing Authentic Christian Leadership Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

Cliff On-One-Side

Cliff On-the-Other-Side

Always postponing delegation to the indigenous

Laying on hands too quickly

Ignoring culture in leadership training

Elevating culture above truth

Supposing doctrine and theology as only criteria

Demoting doctrine and theology

Highlighting skills and gifts above availability and character

Substituting availability and character for genuine giftedness

Emphasizing administrative abilities above spiritual dynamism

Ignoring administration's role in spiritual vitality and power

Equating readiness with Christian perfection

Ignoring the importance of biblical standards

Limiting candidacy for leadership based on gender and ethnicity

Setting quotas of leadership based on gender and ethnicity

Seeing virtually no one as worthy to lead

Seeing everyone as a leader