TeachBeyond President David Durance returns to the podcast today to share wise words about leading through crisis.

 

• “As leaders, we are always going to be stretched during a crisis to be able to find the right times to be leading from the front [...] and, at the same time, creating spaces to be able to listen to what [people] are dealing with.”
• “People are experiencing a real crisis, and at the same time, we live in this reality that God uses these crises for His good to accomplish what He wants to accomplish.”
• “When we haven’t been able to be in classrooms, we have been able to be virtually in homes.”
• “Authenticity during a crisis is so key [...] To authentically care for those that God puts in front of you is never more important than during a crisis.”
• “The human nature of wanting things the way they were is the most critical thing that we have to buck against. What was happening before coronavirus or whatever crisis you’re facing? We want it to be the same again. That’s rare, if not completely impossible.”
• “We need to move out of crisis mode and move into a new mode of being, and that means that we are going to accept that things will be different.”
• God and the Coronavirus (N. T. Wright)
• Coronavirus and Christ (John Piper)
• “Through the opportunity that God has given us in this crisis, we are going to come out through this crisis better equipped to accomplish the mission that God has given us.”
• The Steward Leader (R. Scott Rodin)
• “As leaders, whether in crisis or not, but especially during a crisis, we need to be leading from the overflow of what God is doing in our own hearts. That is going to be the foundation for effectively dealing with this crisis. If we aren’t personally seeing this inside-out transformation, then we won’t be effective in leading.”
• “Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.” - Hudson Taylor

 

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