Leadership

One thing (among many) that I have to learn over and over and over again is that not everyone thinks like me.  Amazing, isn’t it?  A corollary to that is that not everyone leads like I do, either.   This includes my pastor.  It get slightly more complicated when you also sleep with your pastor.

As I wrote previously, we are in the very early stages of a church plant.  Setting the tone and style of leadership is obviously critical to the future, the look and the feel of the church.   It is a really good thing that I have not been called to be a pastor, because I am always just trying to get things done so I can check it off the list and move on to the next thing. 

I am humbled and chagrined as I sit in a formation meeting that my wife is leading and find myself fidgeting and thinking, “OK, OK, let’s get on with it,”  only to find myself five minutes later (or the next day,) discovering that her way of leading the group to think about a particular issue is far superior to mine, and much more inclusive.  Not only that, but it draws significantly more insight from the group than my, “lay the facts out, make a decision” style.    Also, most everyone else in the group gets it far before I do…I HATE it when that happens! 

I admit I am not much of a servant leader.  It is becoming distressingly obvious to me that I have a great deal to learn from my pastor and the others in our group. Hmmm, maybe that’s why God is letting me be a part of this adventure.  I am going to have watch, listen, and apply; and, oh yeah…I am going to have to shut up occasionally.