Writings on Christian leadership and leader development by Malcolm Webber
God’s ultimate purpose in all things revolves around His Son: having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth – in Him. [...]
Malcolm Webber
In our last Letter, we looked at the goal of leader development – we must build healthy leaders. There are five key attributes of a healthy leader: Christ. Community. Character. Calling. Competencies. Thus, a healthy Christian leader is a man or woman who knows God, was formed and lives in supportive and accountable community, has strong [...]
Malcolm Webber
In our last Letters, we looked at the relationship between Christ and Community in the leader’s life: Christ builds Community, and Community builds Christ. First, “Christ builds Community” means the leader’s union with Christ will be expressed in the leader living together with others in the Community in self-giving love, in true [...]
Malcolm Webber
In our last Letter, we looked at the relationship between Christ and Community and the implications of this relationship for leader development. In the New Testament, there is a very close relationship between the church and the leader’s maturing union with Christ. This relationship can be expressed in two fundamental ways: Christ builds [...]
Malcolm Webber
In the western church, Christianity is largely understood as an individual thing – a personal transaction between the individual and God. Consequently, leader development is also understood, largely, in individual terms – the individual learns and grows in an essentially individualized learning environment and then, once qualified, he [...]
Malcolm Webber
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.
Malcolm Webber
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 [...]
Malcolm Webber
In our last Letter we looked at the traditional approach to building Christian leaders: the local church sends its emerging leaders to a specialized, independent, external entity (the “factory”) that takes responsibility for training them and then sending them back.
Malcolm Webber
An ancient African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Similarly, it takes a spiritual community or family to build a leader.
Malcolm Webber
The leader needs to be connected with four kinds of community: his family, his local church, the various ministry teams of which he is a part, and the world.
Malcolm Webber