It has been a bit of a weird week, I think I have been deep in thought all this week, I have been thinking a lot about Christian leadership. I have been thinking that leadership is all about people, even in the most basic aspect the name leadership coming from leading people.. You say about a person they are a natural leader when they have good people skills can get people excited about something and get people to follow them!

I total understand that we need admin people to help run stuff and they often end up being our leaders, people who can get things done, but there is more to leadership than that, we need visionary people. In a church context this needs to be getting God's vision and hearing from Him as to where we are to go and what we are to do as a church. I think people often claim this, but sadly this often is used as a way of saying this is what we are doing and don't question my decision... I am not saying that this is always the case it just seams a bit sad that I have seen this a good bit before.

Even when a Leader has heard from God a popular or unpopular message, you need to have that as your goal and take people on that journey with you, not just demand obedience from them. I think what sets good leaders apart from bad leaders is there ability to bring a people with them. I was talking to a friend about this today and they said," A leader's got to explain what God's been speaking to them about it and get everyone else excited about it too."

I don't think I mind hard visions or even ones that seams hard to do, I think I even like the idea of a vision that we cant achieve on our own, a vision where we really have to get desperate for Jesus to show up and to do his amazing stuff! :)

I have also been thinking about that call in the bible for us to pray for our leaders, I think that is so important if we don't pray for our leaders we cant expect much from them. I think I have found my voice among those who are calling out for more from leadership and talk about it, but do not actually care enough to pray about it. All that says is we like being critiques rather than we are passionate for God to show up.... So eating some of my own humble pie I am starting to pray for my leaders!!

chat to you soon! tim :)