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These leadership thoughts come from a man who celebrated his 80th birthday this year...American pastor and well respected leader. Interviewed by Carey Neuhoff (https://careynieuwhof.com/)earlier in the year...‘my top 15 leadership imperatives from 80 years of leadership’
Gordon MacDonald
- Put the people you value most into your calendar first.
- Pastors, your family is the Lord’s work. Live like it.
- Never stop learning and growing!
- If you want to do what you’re called to do, you need to keep growing.
- Be more a priest and less a preacher to people.
- A preacher is a one-way conversation, but a priest is a dialogue. Be more like a priest to the people in your life.
- The time will come when you will have to relinquish titles and privileges and slip into obscurity. Ultimately the obscurity of death.
- What kind of an old person do you want to be? Plan for it.
- Prepare yourself for those occasions. When, you like most people, you will suffer, fail, fall into doubt, face conflict and experience loss.
- Disappointments and doubts will come into your life. Sometimes Satan wins a battle, but he will never win the war.
- Be trustworthy and dependable. A person who keeps his or her word. Don’t make promises you can’t keep.
- Don’t make promises you can’t keep. Your integrity relies upon it.
- Be a spiritual mother or father to teachable people who may someday inherit your responsibilities.
- The next generation needs what you have to offer. Don’t withhold it.
- Live modestly, stay free of debt. Be generous, develop a financial strategy for your future, and be wary of those who try to buy your favor.
- The way you handle your money is one of the ways your congregation judges you.
- Expect to reorder your internal life once every 7-10 years.
- Life goes through basic definitional changes in 10-year increments. The way you think about life will need to change with these things.
- Receive compliments, criticism, and counsel with humility and appreciation. Avoid whining, complaining, self-pity. Assume that there is at least a grain of truth in the things critics say about you and your work.
- Always in a conversation, look for the grain of truth. Everybody has something God has planted in them for you.
- Stay alert for the evils and temptations embedded in institutional life.
- Every relationship has its flaws. And good leadership is “assuming that there are flaws in this organization, and I must always be aware of when they might show themselves and what I as a leader would do to bring it under control.”
- Be quick to say with sincerity, “Thank you.” “Well done.” “I’m sorry.” “I forgive you.” And, “How can I help?”
- These are the five inner core transactions in all relationships. None of them can be missing if you would like to have a healthy relationship. Always look for the thing you can find in another person that’s worth praising.
- Always maintain a relationship with one or two mentors who can aid you in hearing God’s voice.
- Over the course of a lifetime, aim to have had over 100 mentors that have left their wisdom with you.
- Master the art of asking the penetrating questions that open someone’s heart.
- You know that you are asking penetrating questions when you get responses like:
- “Boy, you really ask good questions.”
- “Wow. Nobody’s ever asked me that before.”
- Or, “I’ve never thought about that.”
- When you get those kind of responses, this person is welcoming you to a place that’s near to their heart.
- Retreat to the cross regularly. Express your appreciations. Name your sins. Pray for the world. Listen to God’s call to do things that are bigger than you.
- This point eclipses all other points on this list.
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Follow us on facebook here:
Cessnock - https://www.facebook.com/Beyond.Church.Cessnock
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Find out more about Beyond Church here: Connect with us today: http://flr.ms/Um
These leadership thoughts come from a man who celebrated his 80th birthday this year...American pastor and well respected leader. Interviewed by Carey Neuhoff (https://careynieuwhof.com/)earlier in the year...‘my top 15 leadership imperatives from 80 years of leadership’
Gordon MacDonald
- Put the people you value most into your calendar first.
- Pastors, your family is the Lord’s work. Live like it.
- Never stop learning and growing!
- If you want to do what you’re called to do, you need to keep growing.
- Be more a priest and less a preacher to people.
- A preacher is a one-way conversation, but a priest is a dialogue. Be more like a priest to the people in your life.
- The time will come when you will have to relinquish titles and privileges and slip into obscurity. Ultimately the obscurity of death.
- What kind of an old person do you want to be? Plan for it.
- Prepare yourself for those occasions. When, you like most people, you will suffer, fail, fall into doubt, face conflict and experience loss.
- Disappointments and doubts will come into your life. Sometimes Satan wins a battle, but he will never win the war.
- Be trustworthy and dependable. A person who keeps his or her word. Don’t make promises you can’t keep.
- Don’t make promises you can’t keep. Your integrity relies upon it.
- Be a spiritual mother or father to teachable people who may someday inherit your responsibilities.
- The next generation needs what you have to offer. Don’t withhold it.
- Live modestly, stay free of debt. Be generous, develop a financial strategy for your future, and be wary of those who try to buy your favor.
- The way you handle your money is one of the ways your congregation judges you.
- Expect to reorder your internal life once every 7-10 years.
- Life goes through basic definitional changes in 10-year increments. The way you think about life will need to change with these things.
- Receive compliments, criticism, and counsel with humility and appreciation. Avoid whining, complaining, self-pity. Assume that there is at least a grain of truth in the things critics say about you and your work.
- Always in a conversation, look for the grain of truth. Everybody has something God has planted in them for you.
- Stay alert for the evils and temptations embedded in institutional life.
- Every relationship has its flaws. And good leadership is “assuming that there are flaws in this organization, and I must always be aware of when they might show themselves and what I as a leader would do to bring it under control.”
- Be quick to say with sincerity, “Thank you.” “Well done.” “I’m sorry.” “I forgive you.” And, “How can I help?”
- These are the five inner core transactions in all relationships. None of them can be missing if you would like to have a healthy relationship. Always look for the thing you can find in another person that’s worth praising.
- Always maintain a relationship with one or two mentors who can aid you in hearing God’s voice.
- Over the course of a lifetime, aim to have had over 100 mentors that have left their wisdom with you.
- Master the art of asking the penetrating questions that open someone’s heart.
- You know that you are asking penetrating questions when you get responses like:
- “Boy, you really ask good questions.”
- “Wow. Nobody’s ever asked me that before.”
- Or, “I’ve never thought about that.”
- When you get those kind of responses, this person is welcoming you to a place that’s near to their heart.
- Retreat to the cross regularly. Express your appreciations. Name your sins. Pray for the world. Listen to God’s call to do things that are bigger than you.
- This point eclipses all other points on this list.