Every day, we strive to be the best leaders we can be. Leadership is foundational for success in any setting, from business and ministry to personal life. However, being a leader in today's world poses numerous challenges, as we frequently lose sight of what authentic leadership entails.
In this episode, Tim reminds us of what makes good leadership. When we make mistakes or falter as a leader, we must always fall back on the importance of our relationship with God. By reflecting on what God wants us to do, we can see the path toward effective leadership more clearly than before.
Listen to the episode to learn how good leadership is linked to stewardship and seeking God's heart.
3 Reasons to Listen:
- Find out how Tim and several other listeners define leadership so that you can draw yours.
- Learn how good leadership is inextricably linked to our relationship with God.
- Understand modern challenges affecting effective leadership and how to overcome them.
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Episode Highlights
[02:24] The Issue with Today's Leaders
- This episode's topic was ignited by Tim’s disappointment over leaders who no longer lead and represent Christ.
- Many people have lost faith in leaders and no longer believe what they see or hear in politics.
- He calls both political parties' leaders hypocritical because they advocate for one thing while doing something else, shattering our trust.
[04:12] Leadership and Faith
- Chip Brogden's article was about his struggles with organized religion.
- Chip's relationship with God was formed through being led by the Lord rather than through churches and religion.
- It is challenging to have a genuine relationship with God in modern times because of spiritual leadership's authoritative and dictatorial nature.
[06:24] Leaders from the Old Testament
- Tim reflects on the ineffective leadership depicted in the Book of Judges.
- It is an example of people disconnecting from their faith and reconnecting with God because of a highly flawed judge, then repeating the cycle after a few years.
- This cycle reflects modern times and how we need a push to rekindle our spiritual relationship with God, even though we should have one regardless of circumstance.
[08:37] The Prophet Samuel and Leadership
- Tim uses scripture to define good leadership.
- The people of Israel begged the prophet Samuel to give them a leader in the Book of Samuel, but it was not God's perfect will.
- For wisdom and guidance, Christ's followers must go directly to God.
- However, our desire to go to people who act as intermediaries between God and us causes failure and the challenges we face in our faith.
[08:45] "I believe that often what we’re doing with leadership is we’re trying to do something like the nation of Israel was doing in the book of Samuel. We’re begging for something that is not the perfect will of God. It’s God’s permissive will." -
