Category: Christian Leadership

Practicing Greatness

Practicing Greatness

This Summer, our family took a trip to Colorado…to a place of fond memories from my youth.  My grandparents spent their summers away from the Texas heat in Blue Spruce Trailer Park near Durango, Colorado. And when I was 15, I decided to spend time with them instead of playing All-Stars in baseball. I really enjoyed the quietness of the mountains and the manmade-wonder of Mesa Verde National Park.

On our trip this Summer, I picked up Reggie McNeal’s book Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders. I really enjoy reading in the mountains.  For me, that’s a great way to get closer to God…and this book helped me better understand His vision for spiritual leadership. I encourage you to check out what I gleaned from McNeal’s 7 disciplines of extraordinary spiritual leaders.

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Make Excellence a Way of Life

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi

Colossians 3:23 – “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”

Week 49 of the NIV Leadership Bible focuses on Excellence. That’s one of the Core Values I learned from my grandfather & father—by word and deed, they showed me that whatever you do, do your best. I also recall a sign hanging in my father’s cabinet shop that read, “If you can’t find the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?” Those lessons have served me well throughout my career.

In the workplace, employees are generally committed to excellence because they want to please their customers and improve the bottom line. That can be a good thing, but as followers of Christ, the motive that drives Out of This World Leaders to excellence is a desire to please the one who will give us our final reward. Everything we do should be done with a conscious awareness of his presence…a realization that he is watching.

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