Leading With a Committed Heart: Day 2
Jesus is harder on leaders than anyone else. Do you agree? Have you ever invested “blindly?”
by David Joynt on July 25, 2016
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The heart of the leader, committed to Christ, is focused on His Kingdom values and mission. If we love Him, we fulfill His commands and evaluate by His criteria. This means a genuinely committed heart is not blind! Other commitments—to institutions, to programs, to denominations, to processes—they must be malleable, amendable, and releasable.
We get no credit for being loyal to failed projects or dying churches. That kind of commitment, to “go down with the ship,” “keep the lights on,” and defend things despite their ineffectiveness, is wrong-handed. Jesus never tells a parable where Kingdom failure is rewarded, only punished! Our lives and gifts are too crucial to be thrown away in lost causes. It is good that pastors, like me, are on one-year contracts!
Jesus is harder on leaders than anyone else. Do you agree?
Have you ever invested “blindly?”
Notice the emphases is in our passage as effective investment.
