Leading By Example Makes The Wrong Kind Of Leader
The classic line in leadership is to ‘lead by example.’ I’ve been told that line numerous times. I think I’m coming to see that this is misleading advice that doesn’t really get to the heart…
Category: Authority Series
Leading Is Not A Spiritual Gift
The basic formula for leadership in the church (especially church planting) is this: 1. See a need to start something 2. Find a solid, well liked, person who people follow or be that kind of…
Church Is Just Leaders and Followers
It seems that the church has created only two kinds of people. Leaders and followers. Leaders are people that produce content and then followers are those that consume that content. Leaders are usually on staff,…
The Art of A Good Leader
The best leaders are the ones who have convinced their congregations that by just doing the simple act of going to church on Sunday to hear them preach, that they are doing everything that they…
Should We Choose Our Leaders By Lot?
“Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.” – Acts 1:26 Right now at theStory we are in Acts, we’ll probably be there for another…
The Balance Between Being Held Accountable and Holding Accountable
One of the main struggles I find in relationships, especially one’s that I am in, is striking up a healthy balance of accountability. I find this especially tough in being a leader of a church…
When Leaders Fail At Leading, What Next?
I’ve been changing lately, or at least I like to think I am. I don’t like changing, or having realizations about myself, because it usually means that someone else was right and I was wrong….
Relationships From The Bottom Up
I’ve wrestled with the idea of authority all my life. I’ll attribute it to my so called rebellious nature, but mostly it’s because I can’t stand not thinking for myself and being told what to think. I…
Submission as Subversion – A Sermon on Colossians 3:18-4:1
We have now spent a month and a half inside of Colossians and we’ve pretty much been going in the same direction all along. Paul was writing to a church in Colossi and helping them…
Servant Leadership Doesn’t Work
Been reading a few links and been in some conversation from/with Jonathan Brink, James Kingsley and Darryl Silvestri lately which has got me thinking a bit about leadership. I’m going to go out on a…
Refusing to be Wrong
I just have to be right. Whatever I do, whoever I’m talking to, and whatever place I am at in my life I will always take the side that I am on. Who lives a…
Revival, God and Todd Bentley Have Left Sarnia and Moved On
Looks like God left Sarnia and went somewhere else to outpour his Spirit. I guess I don’t mean God, I mean Todd Bentley. Instead of it being called the Sarnia Revival, it is called the…
Good and Bad Leaders
Another Post I wrote: When Leaders Fail At Leading: What Next? Got talking about leaders again last night and it revisited the entire issue all over again. I never stop struggling with this issue and…
Authority: Leading and Following
This is in response and addition to Dan posts on leadership. I have done a bit of writing on the ideas of authority over the past few years. I have grown a lot in my…
Authority: Trusting More than Yourself
The idea of authority has always been something that has continually been running through my head. I had a few authority figures that should never have been in authority positions and a few others that…
Authority: Where I’m Coming From (Understanding Power Pt. 2)
They say that ‘postmoderns’ don’t like authority. I think that I’m a prime example of that ideal. I felt this way before I even knew what the word postmodernity meant, or if it wasn’t even…
Authority: Understanding Power Pt. 1
Inspired by a number of different events in my life I’ve been better trying to understand how I feel about groups, movements and institutions. By this I mean anything from what we call an ‘Emergent…
Authority: Bottom Leads
Pernell from the FRWY asked a question on his blog a bit ago, and got some interesting responses. Some of them are along the lines of what I was saying about authority. This is the…
Authority: Authoritative vs. Influential?
I don’t believe authority figures in the kingdom are supposed to act authoritative with towards other people. All through the bible you see Jesus commending people to be servants, to consider others better than themselves…
Authority: Working Under the Top
I’m trying to add some new things to the site. Last night I procrastinated from my work and spent sometime learning some new scripts and the result: a random quote generator. I get to add…