Month: August 2005 (page 5 of 5)

Fellowship Church is making a huge impact on leaders all over the place. That they’ve assembled such a great team of people working together is pretty awesome. One of those leaders is Steve Dilla, who is teaching a lot about leadership – while he learns it.

Steve posts over at his blog about the hardest part of being a leader – the spiritual walk with God. Check out what he writes…

Make no mistake, spiritual leadership rises and falls on a person’s ability to connect daily with the Spirit. Skill, experience and instinct are pathetically inadequate if you want to be a spiritual leader. It is the matchless power of the Living God exploding through everything you do that makes a strong leader.

Leaders worth following are forged in the brute reality of their personal walk with God.

He’s right, you know. So often, we substitute our skill, our knowledge, or our personalities for a genuine, powerful walk with God that changes us and changes those around us.

How’s your walk today?

As I’ve mentioned on several occasions, the lovely and gracious “Mrs. Just Charlie” is starting a new job in a new school. Today is the first day of school. Yesterday she looked all over town for one of those lanyard thingies (technical term!) for her ID badge. She was worried she’d forget it this morning.

I figured out why.

My friend over at The Y Blog would be proud! I’m using a quote from G. K. Chesterton…

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

It’s that principle that looms large over life. I can do anything I want to do, but everything’s not good for me to do, and everything doesn’t contribute anything positive to the world in which I live. Somebody else had something to say about this very thing.

Be careful with your “rights.” It’s always better to be “right.”