Comments on: Leaders are Readers about Leaders http://teaminfocus.com.au/leaders-are-readers-about-leaders/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven Mock http://teaminfocus.com.au/leaders-are-readers-about-leaders/comment-page-1/#comment-4674 Steven Mock Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:12:40 +0000 http://teaminfocus.com.au/?p=775#comment-4674 Rob, The Scriptures are not directly intended to be a manual on leadership. It is curious to me that so many people "study" through the book of Nehemiah, for instance, as though it were some sort of leadership manual. That being said, Scripture does describe many leaders which we can study and see what they had in common and glean leadership principles. 1 Timothy 3 gives the qualifications of church leaders (i.e. elder and deacon). This passage doesn't mention anything about being a servant. Rob,

The Scriptures are not directly intended to be a manual on leadership. It is curious to me that so many people “study” through the book of Nehemiah, for instance, as though it were some sort of leadership manual. That being said, Scripture does describe many leaders which we can study and see what they had in common and glean leadership principles. 1 Timothy 3 gives the qualifications of church leaders (i.e. elder and deacon). This passage doesn’t mention anything about being a servant.

]]> By: Robert Apps http://teaminfocus.com.au/leaders-are-readers-about-leaders/comment-page-1/#comment-4669 Robert Apps Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:38:22 +0000 http://teaminfocus.com.au/?p=775#comment-4669 Steve, Apart from servant leadership, do you think the Scriptures give us any other direction on leadership? Some of the authors around on leadership have an iron grip on pragmatism. How do we guard against 'end justifies the means' leadership? Thanks, Rob Steve,

Apart from servant leadership, do you think the Scriptures give us any other direction on leadership?

Some of the authors around on leadership have an iron grip on pragmatism. How do we guard against ‘end justifies the means’ leadership?

Thanks,
Rob

]]> By: Jason http://teaminfocus.com.au/leaders-are-readers-about-leaders/comment-page-1/#comment-4667 Jason Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:12:35 +0000 http://teaminfocus.com.au/?p=775#comment-4667 I really appreciate your point about servanthood being prerequisite to leadership, but not leadership itself. That's an important point. I think we Fundamentalists have tended to avoid non-Fundamentalist help on leadership because they don't emphasise servanthood as much, yet there is a good reason for it. I really appreciate your point about servanthood being prerequisite to leadership, but not leadership itself. That’s an important point. I think we Fundamentalists have tended to avoid non-Fundamentalist help on leadership because they don’t emphasise servanthood as much, yet there is a good reason for it.

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