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Originally Posted by Amanah
Jesus taught obviously but he also lived life in the presence of his disciples so they could learn by seeing practical application. If leadership is by example that would have to mean time spent with people. That can't easily happen in a large congregation.
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It can't happen anymore that having the ear of the CEO, unless you've already climbed the corporate ladder to the executive board.
I work for a small family-owned business, a set of 3 grocery stores. They employ about 100 people, give or take. The owners are available and talk with everyone, day in and day out, either on the salesfloor or with an open-door policy in their offices. Most everyone that works there has their phone numbers. I've worked for them for 3 years now. I am an Assistant Store Director, helping to manage all three locations, traveling from one to the next, back and forth, every week.
I've learned a lot from them about leadership and even shepherding people, if you will, from a secular point of view.
I was blessed when God first saved me. I was saved in a small store front church, which emphasized home ministry and fellowship. The pastor was financially secure and independent, working only occasionally, and not needing a salary from the congregation. He had time to spend with everyone. He took a whole group of us under his wing and trained us, at least in some capacity, almost daily.
He and his wife were all about spending time with the saints, investing in them, pouring their life into them. I learned from them that whoever I won to the Lord, whoever I ministered to, needed me to spend time with them. That time spent with them was more important than anything else. Knowing they had a friend in me, someone who loved and cared for them, and had a place for them at the table, did and does more than anything pithy I might have had or have to say about the Bible.
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