The leadership conundrum
I walked into a Christian bookstore recently and was browsing for something to read. As I looked around I noticed that a large number of books were addressing the topic of leadership. It’s one of the most talked about, written about and taught about topics in our world today. Whether it’s in the church or outside everyone is looking for and celebrating good leaders. In my mind’s eye I tried to wander through the halls of my mental library of books I have read and found that I too had read quite a large number of books on the issue of leadership. There are so many authors and pastors with new insights or new ways of sharing old insights. Everyone is into the “leadership development” movement. With all this teaching and development I sadly noticed another truth as well. With so many leaders being trained up we were severely lacking shepherds. So what’s the difference between them? Isn’t a shepherd a leader? You’re right in saying that but in the post-modern world we live in we have ...