Great insight. And very helpful. As a general rule, without lumping all leadership books together, I have struggled with the overall approach to leadership. It has not always been healthy. Here is a quote from the beginning of Barbara Kellerman's book, "The End of Leadership". She says: "Bottom line: while the leadership industry has been thriving—growing and prospering beyond anyone’s early imaginings—leaders by and large are performing poorly, worse in many ways than before, miserably disappointing in any case to those among us who once believed the experts held the keys to the kingdom."
Isn’t this just what Jesus did on the cross? The religious leaders in that day were interested in power and Jesus threatened that so they killed him thinking that would give them the power. But it backfired. This brings to mind the verse “Be still and know I am God.” The interpretation that I see as most fitting of this verse is when you are faced with a obstacle too big, like the Exodus, to stay calm, don’t panic, and by what God does you will know, HE IS GOD! Like the plagues and parting the Red Sea just to list a few….
For the past few years I’ve read this as a failure of the disciples to take in the lessons of the upper room. Didn’t Jesus literally tell the disciples at the feeding of the 5,000 “You give them something to eat”? Or that the son of man came to serve, not to be served? To me, the apostles absconding from service in order to “preach the word” sounds more toxic than Christlike.
Great insight. And very helpful. As a general rule, without lumping all leadership books together, I have struggled with the overall approach to leadership. It has not always been healthy. Here is a quote from the beginning of Barbara Kellerman's book, "The End of Leadership". She says: "Bottom line: while the leadership industry has been thriving—growing and prospering beyond anyone’s early imaginings—leaders by and large are performing poorly, worse in many ways than before, miserably disappointing in any case to those among us who once believed the experts held the keys to the kingdom."
Isn’t this just what Jesus did on the cross? The religious leaders in that day were interested in power and Jesus threatened that so they killed him thinking that would give them the power. But it backfired. This brings to mind the verse “Be still and know I am God.” The interpretation that I see as most fitting of this verse is when you are faced with a obstacle too big, like the Exodus, to stay calm, don’t panic, and by what God does you will know, HE IS GOD! Like the plagues and parting the Red Sea just to list a few….
For the past few years I’ve read this as a failure of the disciples to take in the lessons of the upper room. Didn’t Jesus literally tell the disciples at the feeding of the 5,000 “You give them something to eat”? Or that the son of man came to serve, not to be served? To me, the apostles absconding from service in order to “preach the word” sounds more toxic than Christlike.
Yes, such a great insight. May I be able to live and lead like that.