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Transformational водительство пророков: RANT

Написано Марк Фургоном Steenwyk: 16-ое мая 2006

В моим курсом OT (будет мой окончательный тип на seminary!) мы читаем
через пророков. Каждая неделя мы должны оценить наше чтение от
OT. Один из вопросов является следующим: «в которая дорога делает x продемонстрируйте
transformational водительство? «Дорога большинств руководители denominational
и профессора министерства оценивают руководителей их исходом. Когда
одно дает привилегии исходу слишком высоки, верность обычно теряет вне к успеху.
Движение само роста церков указывает к росту как знак верности.
Очевидно, пророки были довольно точно и благословлены, но немногие операторы на приеме
уловлено дальше к их сообщению. Иесус себя было больше из «вещего»
руководитель чем «transformational» руководитель. В действительности, единственная причина
что номера пришли в министерство Иесус' было потому что он поднял от умерших и
полито вне его духу. Если мы слишком, не иметь эту странную силу, мы не должны быть
слишком быстро посмотреть его для модели «успеха», если, of course,
нашим определением успеха будет верность.

Иесус «всосало» как руководитель большой группы. Люди последовали за им в a
главным образом предельная дорога. И когда он получил большой следовать за (были главным образом вокруг
потому что он сделал чудеса), он не был интенсивно искателем чувствительным. Он сказал
они тупые вещи как «едят его плоть и кровь.» Правда, мы
построьте наш собственный вариант 2його столетие оно намеревается быть руководителем из
утили капитализма едока и западного rugged индивидуализма и после этого нас
anachronistically delve в Gospels для того чтобы увидеть дороги в Иесус приспосабливает
наша модель водительства. Jesus’ leadership had VERY LITTLE to do with
technique. It had more to do with his love, his miraculous deeds, and his
spiritual depth. He listend to the Spirit. He did what he saw his father
doing. We shouldn’t emulate his encounter with the woman at the
well. We should follow the same Spirit that led Jesus to that
woman.

In the end, as we read in Acts, he was rejected like every other prophet. That
is his legacy. Instead of trying to follow in Jesus’ footsteps, why are we so
eager to make Jesus follow in ours? A few years ago, I was told in
a preaching class not to preach James 4 in such a way that was too challenging.
I was told to make the following verses ENCOURAGING, since preaching is
supposed to be about gathering seekers:

4You adulterers! Don’t
you realize that friendship with this world makes you an enemy of God? I say it
again, that if your aim is to enjoy this world, you can’t be a friend of God. 5What do you think the Scriptures
mean when they say that the Holy Spirit, whom God has placed within us,
jealously longs for us to be faithful? 6He gives us more and more strength to stand against
such evil desires. As the Scriptures say,
"God sets himself against the proud,
but he shows favor to the humble."
7So humble yourselves
before God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw close to God, and God will
draw close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, you
hypocrites.

I was told that the challenge should come via small groups or discipleship
class. That way, people can come and explore our faith before they are
challenged too much.

So, leader. If you want to follow Jesus’ "model" for
leadership, be a prophet. You may gather a crowd for a while, but in the
end, you will suffer and possibly die alone. That is the burden of
prophets. If you’d rather gather a happy crowd and spoon feed them
spirituality according to their comfort level, be a transformational leader.

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Comments

10 Responses to “The Transformational Leadership of Prophets: A RANT”

  1. russ on May 16th, 2006 4:48 pm

    My youth leader is high school told me that a good preacher should always be on the brink of being run out of town.

    I think Jesus also must have believed this.

  2. Bob Evans on May 16th, 2006 5:16 pm

    Yes. That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout! I think there is something both prophetic and transformational in what you say.

  3. shane on May 16th, 2006 9:24 pm

    love it…love it…
    preach it preacher man!

  4. b-nut on May 17th, 2006 9:25 am

    I have a similar rant–glad you expressed it so well. In my first response to that class requirement I even stated that I have no idea what transformational leadership is…or how to find it in the prophets. I have just been making up stuff ever since.

    Jesus and the prophets do not fit any paradigm of transformational leadership that I have heard of…the whole concept makes me a disgruntled student. I thought it was a bizzar question to see on a worksheet about the prophets…

  5. JVD on May 17th, 2006 9:51 am

    YOu can’t find leadership in Nehemiah?

  6. Chris on May 17th, 2006 10:35 am

    Of course anyone can find “leadership” in Nehemiah, but if that’s going to have any relationship to what Mark has just posted, the question should be, “Does the transformational leadership paradigm fit the character of Nehemiah?” He may possibly be the closest fit for such a paradigm, but I just think the whole endeavor is kind of like trying to fit the same pair of blue jeans on any person you can find.

  7. JVD on May 17th, 2006 10:57 am

    Ok, well then you can find leadership in Nehemiah. Leadership gets trashed so easily, but when we look at the bible, there are clear cases where people get behind a leader and move forward.

  8. JVD on May 17th, 2006 10:59 am

    Much like how a seminary professor is excited about a house church movement, and then students rally around the house church movement - just as a thought…

  9. Van S on May 17th, 2006 11:06 am

    I have no problems with leadership. I just have a problem with the way we think leadership should look like. Our modern categories for leadership are inadequate and too results oriented. That is my critique. Leadership is complex and varied. We should be more nuanced and pneumatological in our understanding of church leadership. I hope I don’t come off as ripping on leadership…that wasn’t my intent.

  10. JVD on May 17th, 2006 2:40 pm

    Mark - I agree with you on what leadership should look like, as you know - I believe in a team leadership model that utilizes individual strengths & giftings to benefit the whole. It is the overall critique on any leadership study that gets me. JVD

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