Oct 2006
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. Continue Reading »
Archive for 2006
Sep 2006
The End of Our Pursuit
Why does humanity exist? Norman Grubb answers: “Not to become something but to contain Someone.” Continue Reading »
Aug 2006
The Deception of Religious Activity That Does Not Come From Christ
In 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. Continue Reading »
Jul 2006
Our Outward Ministry: The Reflection of Our Inner Life
In response to our last Letter, one of our Asian friends wrote the following: Continue Reading »
Jul 2006
Jesus Is the Fountainhead of All True Christian Leadership
In 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. Continue Reading »
Jun 2006
Living By Jesus’ Indwelling Life
In 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. Continue Reading »
May 2006
Jesus’ Fellowship with His Father
In 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. Continue Reading »
Apr 2006
The Eternal Nature of God
In 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 existence, with neither beginning nor end. Continue Reading »
Feb 2006
Healthy Leaders Are Built in Community #4
As 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. Continue Reading »
Jan 2006
Healthy Leaders Are Built in Community #3
In 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 to be developed and then send him to the “experts” to “do it” for us. Continue Reading »
