Leadership Issues 6
June 20th, 2009 Posted in Church, Church Planting, LeadershipVisionary Leadership is essential but is potentially dangerous.
- It has proven the most effective leadership style.
- It has the danger of becoming leader centered.
- It has the danger of becoming hyper visionary. Count the cost.
Luke 14:28-32 (NIV)
28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?
29 For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
30 saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’
31 “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.
- The leader can become autocratic.
- The leader must listen or skilled incompetence will emerge. Avoid the CEO disease.
Proverbs 18:13 (NIV)
13 He who answers before listening– that is his folly and his shame.
