We should bless men and women who have done their level best to escape leadership but who have been compelled to return and put their hand on the tiller. We should expect anyone who remains in a formal leadership context to experience repeated bouts of flight, doubt, surrender, and return. Why would this be God's plan? Why does God love the reluctant leader? Here is one reason: the reluctant leader is not easily seduced by power, pride, or ambition.Dan Allender in Leading With a Limp, p18.
I've read this book. It has some good insights.
Hat Tip: Reformissionary: The Reluctant Leader
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