Tag: Book Summaries

In my January 1^st post this year, I chose “Patience” as the “fruit of the Spirit” from Galatians 5:22 as my developmental focus for 2014. As part of that development, I picked up Stephen Eyre’s Bible Study entitled Patience: The Benefits of Waiting.

Eyre starts the study by praying, “Lord, I want patience, and I want it right now!” Eyre explains that it’s often easier to joke about patience than to become patient.

So, how can you develop patience? God generally grows patience in you when you run into frustrating experiences; when others fail to meet your expectations; when people you depend on let you down; when the things you depend on keep breaking. Have you experienced any of those recently? Or how about this one? You call out to God for help, and he seems to be on vacation.

Click here to learn from Eyre’s Bible Study on this important Fruit of the Spirit.

Continuing with the theme of Commitment this week, I wanted to share what I’ve learned from Mike Bonem’s book entitled In Pursuit of Great AND Godly Leadership: Tapping the Wisdom of the World for the Kingdom of God. Mike Bonem was a senior manager with McKinsey & Company when he transitioned to the role of Executive Pastor for West University Baptist Church in Houston—a role he held for more than 10 years.

I read his book this last summer and called him to get some career advice. How did he make the transition from the corporate world to a church staff? What advice would he have to offer someone like me? On June 27^th, he encouraged me to get involved with the Christian Leadership Alliance (CLA)—an organization of mission-focused Christians who lead in today’s high-impact Christian nonprofit ministries, churches, educational institutions, and businesses. CLA moves beyond good Christian management to empower Christian leadership that’s catalytic in its transformation of people, their organizations, and ultimately the world…which sounds like a great alignment with Out of This World Leadership!

Bonem writes that our leadership should be shaped by God’s Word—which provides us with a number of leadership principles. If we settle for good results based on those principles, we fall far short of the mission to which God has called us, and we will continue to slip toward mediocrity and irrelevance. Good is indeed the enemy of both great and godly. So is God calling us to greatness? Or is great the enemy of godly?

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