Prayer and the Christian Leader
If union with Christ is the core reality of Christian leadership, then time with Christ in prayer must be one of its core activities.
Malcolm WebberWritings on Christian leadership and leader development by Malcolm Webber
If union with Christ is the core reality of Christian leadership, then time with Christ in prayer must be one of its core activities.
Malcolm WebberWhy does humanity exist? Norman Grubb answers: “Not to become something but to contain Someone.”
Malcolm WebberIn previous Letters we have discussed the centrality of Jesus Christ in Christian leadership. The following story, taken from Placebo by Howard Pittman, is a powerful expression of this reality.
Malcolm WebberIn response to our last Letter, one of our Asian friends wrote the following:
Malcolm WebberIn our last Letter, we saw that just as Jesus lived His life by the life of His Father in Him, so we are to live our Christian lives, by the life of Jesus in us.
Malcolm WebberIn our last Letter, we saw that Jesus’ continuous inward fellowship with His Father was the source of everything in His life and ministry. In this relationship between Jesus and His Father, there is a parallel to what our own relationship with God can be.
Malcolm WebberIn our last Letter, we saw that the Son of God was in fellowship with His Father for all eternity. He was “toward” His Father, looking at Him, communing with Him in loving, joyful, spontaneous, abundant fellowship.
Malcolm WebberIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) “In the beginning was the Word…” In the very beginning God simply “was.” John did not write “in the beginning became the Word,” because the Eternal Son of God never “became.” He always “was” – He eternally “was.” God possesses absolute [...]
Malcolm WebberAs have seen in previous Letters, our leadership development efforts must not be conducted apart from a living community of people in which the emerging leaders function and participate.
Malcolm WebberIn most Western organizations today, we love specialization and compartmentalization. Consequently, as we have already mentioned, it is common for us to entirely delegate the task of leadership development to some “specialist” person or group – whether inside or outside the organization itself. We identify the emerging leader who needs [...]
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