This month’s focus is from the wisdom of Proverbs on life and death. From a leadership perspective, I like how Tyler Reagin’s book The Life-Giving Leader: Learning to Lead from Your Truest Self fits with this month’s theme.
Craig Groeschel points out that two things stand out immediately about Tyler. First, Tyler is crazy passionate about Jesus. Second, Tyler is obsessed with building great leaders. He went on to note that he’s heard Tyler say, “Leadership isn’t easy. It’s difficult because it matters. It changes people. It’s valuable. And things of value require sacrifice.”
Andy Stanley points out that great leaders breathe life into the leaders around them, noting that over the course of your marketplace or ministry career, you’ll have endless opportunities to give your life away. What you do with those opportunities will define you.
Reagin summarizes it perfectly, “When life flows, influence grows.” He notes that the pursuit of life-giving leadership begins and ends with Jesus. Today, we’re seeing a crisis of leadership that won’t be addressed until Jesus followers step up and through their leadership bring life to others.
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