magnets

Now I want to transition from serving to leadership (an appropriate topic since it is CCF committee elections!).

What is leadership? I let some experts define it:

"Leadership is influence" - John Maxwell

Dave Kraft on Leadership

Here Dave Kraft mentions the existence of a "vision". Furthermore, Blackaby defines spiritual leadership as "moving people on to God's agenda".

When I first served in committee, an older spiritual brother introduced to me John Maxwell, a Christian author  who writes book about leadership (his audience aren't only Christians, but also general corporate leaders). So I read Developing the Leader within You. And on my following work term, I read Spiritual Leadership by Blackaby.

Definitely, I learned a lot from these experienced Christian authors about what leadership is all about. And as of now, I define leadership as "influence to move people to a place described in a vision". In the Christian context, this vision is given by God.

So yeah, leaders are like magnets that exerts a magnetic field which cause atoms to be aligned in the same direction and creates an attraction force (I am forgetting a lot of this stuff learned from school!). To a certain extent, I think everyone should be a leader in a certain area (relationships, small groups, ministries, fellowship, leading someone to faith, etc).

The first bible study I helped write is about the book of Nehemiah, which brings back interesting memories. And I want to go through it, to dissect what the bible tells us about leadership, which I really like to talk about.