LEADERSHIP FASCINATION !!!!!

Living in leadership is a most fascinating adventure.  The element that makes it so is God.  That's it.  And, that's everything.

Don't we get it by now?  From Bible's cover to cover is one repetitious story: man isn't, man can't, and God can, does, and will.

Leaders don't pretend we can be effective; we believe in the God who can and does.  We aren't dependent upon our own talent and skill.  We are dependent upon His talent and skill.

Ritual and tradition and rote make us fearful and weary.

Spirit and promise and hope make us His valiant and vibrant children who have inherited, not a movement but, a faith that been handed down since....well, since Abraham fathered it.

For any preacher who sits as I once did for a couple of decades wondering if and how anything will ever turn for the good, wait on Him.  He will be there.  Too many of us give up too soon.  Wait.  And if nothing changes, wait some more.

God has never met a mountain He couldn't handle nor a death He couldn't conquer.  From the cross of gasping sacrifice to the sheer loneliness of one empty tomb, God has sent a message, I can do anything and you have inherited My resurrection power.

For church leaders, the question is not whether He can deliver; but whether we will wait upon Him.  We will. 

Rejection?  Frustration?  Abandonment?  Self-inflicted failure?  All are merely confidence boosters to depend on God.  We are zeroes.  It took me a bit--like two decades--to begin to begin to catch it.  But it is true.  And once crushed of personal talent, it is not odd to note it is then that He begins to take over.

Our leadership problem is basically one; we think we can manage an unmanageable kingdom they same way one would manage a sales force or a football team.  Nope.  Nope.  Nope.

Jesus splinters carnal approach with back-door slam dunks of whodathunkit?  His masterful specialty is to pick the loser, the loser formula, or the losing concept and amaze the whole lot of us who lead from our meager brain-power.  His resurrection power defies human logic as well as organization.

To believe God can do for us and will do for us what we can't manipulate on our own is the path for leadership fascination.  We get to see Him work.  And His talent looks so much better than all of ours combined.  Fascinating!!!!!!