Monday, October 8, 2007

Tim Keller on Leadership

This is an uncommon and yet refreshing description of leadership from Tim Keller:

"Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace. The number one leaders in every church ought to be the people who repent the most fully without excuses, because you don't need any now; the most easily without bitterness; the most publicly and the most joyfully. They know their standing isn't based on their performance."

3 comments:

David Thurston said...

Finding a leader (in any situation) with a genuine nature that is able to pull from the worst times in their life and bring you to the best times in yours is rare - but when you are able to do so - you learn all that you can from that person. Great post today Wes!

wes mcmurray said...

you actually made me think of this yesterday when we were speaking about Eddie...

Anonymous said...

Do you have a referrence for the Keller quote? Thanks