Comments on: Leaders need community

By: lonliness… | Solar Crash

lonliness… | Solar Crash — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:50:13 +0000

[...] wrote a while back about how ‘leaders need community‘. I want to take this further as not only an acknowledgment, but as a request, on behalf of [...]

By: Solar Crash: 2007 round-up | Solar Crash

Solar Crash: 2007 round-up | Solar Crash — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:05:02 +0000

[...] noteworthy posts of 2007 Silence in the church The challenge of preaching today Canada vs. the U.S. Leaders need community Leaders take responsibility High school all over again Risky Leadership Creation Re-Imagined My [...]

By: Lon

Lon — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:21:30 +0000

Parke, Maestas, thanks for swinging by.

Personally I’ve always found it easier leading alone, but with this paradigm shift I’ve had to get real with myself and admit that I need people just as much as everyone else does.

By: maestas

maestas — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:20:09 +0000

this is exactly what i need to hear right now! I would love to be a campus minister and i have no experience in it. I know being in that kind of position requires leadership and a passion above and beyond the level I’m currently at. Good reading your stuff, I’ll definately stay tuned!

By: Parke

Parke — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:29:37 +0000

In this stretch of things, I’m still leading at my community of faith, but not leading a small group. That’s offered a great opportunity to be served by my life group leaders, which I really value. I think too it’s important to have co-leaders who are your confidants and focused on the same area of ministry. I can share many things with my group, but there a thing or two that I need to process with another leader in a setting where we both are seeking the best for the situation and not gossip.

By: Lon

Lon — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:16:14 +0000

Thanks for chiming in Brian, you’re right, it doesn’t matter what success brings if there’s no one around to enjoy it with… i doubt it’s even possible to be truly successful without community.

Dallas, it’s amazing what the love of God drives us to do, isn’t it? to seek to hang out with people unlike ourselves, is a phenomenal miracle that occurs within Christ-followers.

Don’t you just hate those people who always speak truth into your life? my wife’s one of those, I don’t know what i’d do without her…

By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:10:00 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. And where I personally see this breakdown is in the way that most people define or live out community. Doing fun things together or talking on the phone once a week is not getting it. We need to seek a community that encourages vulnerability and seeks change. If our community is always satisfied with the status quo then what does it benefit the kingdom or the people involved? It does not take a supernatural act of God for people to like each other and hang out because they have the same hair cut. But it does take a supernatural act for people to love one another, to be real with each other, and see each other change.

this includes leaders. They MUST surround themselves with men (women) that they trust and who are willing to say the hard things that need to be said.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:09:21 +0000

Good stuff, Lon. Community is vital for everyone. Leaders without community whither. I could not imagine life and mission without my friends.