Thoughts from the Leadership Learning Community (3 Marks of A Good Leader)

I love learning from others around me, people I share life with who are on this journey of leadership and ministry along with me.  Recently one of our Young Life Leaders sat in on a leadership training time where Bob Davidson spoke.  Bob is a Young Life staff member in the Chicagoland Region and therefore thinks alot about ministry, leadership and following Jesus.

Below I have included some notes from my leader friend who attended this training time led by Bob Anderson.  I think Bob is on to something… Take a look at some of the questions posed below and see what you think.

Bob Davidson said there are 3 things that good leaders possess:

1- Leaders attempt to DEFINE REALITY and attempt to describe things as so.
We talked about how this relates to our lives, as well as kids lives.
How do you do this? What does it look like? Is it easy or hard? Do we
simply think that what Christ has done is true/real vs. actually
acting as if it is true/real? Have you ever really experienced God’s
love? What does Christ’s beating death and rising mean to us today?
How do you bring this, define this, to kids so that it’s real?

2- Leaders are GREAT PROBLEM SOLVERS. How does this relate to defineing
reality in our lives, kids lives, and YL ministry in general?
Where are you going? Where do you take kids?

3- Leaders continually SAY THANKS before God, before other people.
Humbling your self. Bob also talked about how listening to God plays into this. Have you
ever attempted to really listen to God and operated as if he is speaking?
Do we control whether or not we listen or not or harden our heart
towards listening (Hebrews 3:7-9)? Bob said we must STOP, DEFINE REALITY, and then LISTEN.

~ by caryhendricks on April 2, 2008.