Hard Questions

Be a First Responder to Hard Questions- Harder Answers In John Burke’s “No Perfect People Allowed” (Zondervan, 2006), he devotes two chapters to the two “Tolerance Litmus Tests” that in his opinion are critically facing the 21st Century church. Since we are living in a postmodern and post Christian world, as a pastor/staff member/lay leader/person [...]

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Reverse Mentoring

The first time that I became aware of the concept/practice of reverse mentoring was when I read the book by Earl Creps, “Reverse Mentoring – How Young Leaders Can Transform The Church And Why We Should Let Them”, in the fall of 2009 as a seminary student. This book is a Leadership Network Publication by [...]

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Developing 21st Century Glocal Servant Leadership

“Leadership is Everyone’s Business” James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner The word glocal is a combination of the words local and global. Manfred Lange, credited with using the term glocal in late 1989, used it during preparations for the Global Change exhibition, and presented a poster on local and global change.  From “Global Talk”, [...]

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What is Leadership?

Below are some quotes on the topic of Leadership that I have found inspiring, and I hope you do too: Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which an individual or leadership team induces a group to pursue objectives held by a leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers. [...]

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