Writings on Christian leadership and leader development by Malcolm Webber
If our churches and Christian ministries are to be healthy, every member must take responsibility for the whole, functioning actively and thoughtfully. Our last two Letters examined the first five out of eleven characteristics of effective followers. We saw that healthy followers obey, encourage, take responsibility, give advice and [...]
Malcolm Webber
For our churches and Christian ministries to be healthy, every member must take responsibility for the whole; every member must function actively and thoughtfully. Our last Letter began to study eleven characteristics of effective followers. We saw that healthy followers obey, encourage and take responsibility. Here are the next two [...]
Malcolm Webber
In our last Letter we looked at five kinds of followers: the alienated follower, the conformist, the passive follower, the pragmatic survivor and the effective follower. This Letter will begin to study eleven characteristics of effective followers.
Malcolm Webber
The definition of a healthy human body is one in which all the parts function properly. If one part of the body does not function properly we consider the body to be sick or disabled. It is the same in the Body of Christ. For the church – or any Christian ministry or organization – to grow to maturity and to fulfill her purpose in God, [...]
Malcolm Webber
Followers are often ignored when organizational successes or failures are explained. This is because:
Malcolm Webber
A godly leader will choose accountability. To be accountable means to be responsible to others, to allow others to call one to account. An unaccountable person, on the other hand, will answer to no one outside of himself.
Malcolm Webber
This series of Letters examines Jesus’ method of building leaders.
Malcolm Webber
Before we deal with the daily nitty-gritty of how leaders actually build leaders, in the next few Letters we will first examine some fundamental realities concerning leadership development.
Malcolm Webber