Simple and to the point

Sometimes all the trimmings takes away from the main meal! This is it, isn't it?

A great video to watch - leadership as dream not plan!

I have watched this short (TED talks are generally short, around 20 minutes) video a while back and kept it - why? Because it walks about one of the functions of the gift of leadership - the ability to inspire. Denny and Denny talk about this often - how easy it is to reduce ministry and Body life to a function of management instead of a releasing of a God-given and empowered purpose! I think if you take a little time and watch the video, you will understand exactly what they mean...what we need to do is to rely on the Holy Spirit to move people into action...people are not inspired into action via our plans and management "products" but rather by a dream - a dream of faithfulness to Jesus and a deliberate living out of new life in Him. In addition, to function, according to the videos language, in the "what and how" spheres essentially reduces Kingdom work to methodologies, programs and consumeristically-driven techniques where we as disciples become "peddlers of church products" not participators in a redemptive movement of God. I could go on and on about this...I have some other ideas...for now, it is best to let the video speak for itself and you "do the math"!

TEDTalks Simon Sinek-How great leaders inspire action - Simon Sinek (2009) from Roofcamp on Vimeo.