Comments on: Leadership Essentials – Never Stop Leading http://www.davidlwatson.org/2009/03/05/leadership-essentials-%e2%80%93-never-stop-leading/ David Watson's Blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:40:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Kenneth King http://www.davidlwatson.org/2009/03/05/leadership-essentials-%e2%80%93-never-stop-leading/comment-page-1/#comment-202 John Kenneth King Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:54:14 +0000 http://www.davidlwatson.org/?p=344#comment-202 David, Thanks for the post. I have shared it with the rest of our pastoral team here because there have been times lately when we've struggled to know if we were leading in the right ways. Hearing about Pat's trip gives a pretty good mental image of how some of this spiritual territory has felt. John David,

Thanks for the post. I have shared it with the rest of our pastoral team here because there have been times lately when we’ve struggled to know if we were leading in the right ways. Hearing about Pat’s trip gives a pretty good mental image of how some of this spiritual territory has felt.

John

]]> By: Scott in Vegas http://www.davidlwatson.org/2009/03/05/leadership-essentials-%e2%80%93-never-stop-leading/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Scott in Vegas Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:59:49 +0000 http://www.davidlwatson.org/?p=344#comment-200 Thanks for the post - I have been thinking about this a lot. It seems that built into being obedient to God and the spiritual location that obedience keeps us in requires us also to be functioning with a large portion of "unknown", which inherently requires more faith than confidence, more humility than skill. This seems cliche and romantic until you are the one in that position, standing by the Red Sea so to speak, wondering if you just made the biggest mistake of your life or if this was a divine setup that ends in God's glory. The confounding part is that it doesn't necessarily mean earthly success, and will most likely cost life or limb, maybe not physically, but certainly emotionally, possibly both! There is no answer to this except to keep leading, keep hearing, keep moving or something like that. Thanks for the post – I have been thinking about this a lot. It seems that built into being obedient to God and the spiritual location that obedience keeps us in requires us also to be functioning with a large portion of “unknown”, which inherently requires more faith than confidence, more humility than skill. This seems cliche and romantic until you are the one in that position, standing by the Red Sea so to speak, wondering if you just made the biggest mistake of your life or if this was a divine setup that ends in God’s glory. The confounding part is that it doesn’t necessarily mean earthly success, and will most likely cost life or limb, maybe not physically, but certainly emotionally, possibly both! There is no answer to this except to keep leading, keep hearing, keep moving or something like that.

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