{"id":24,"date":"2014-11-07T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2016-02-17T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:55:32","slug":"john-stott-on-christian-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"John Stott on Christian Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Stott&#8217;s book\u00a0<i>Involvement, <\/i>vol. 2, the concluding essay entitled, &#8220;A Call for Christian Leadership&#8221; (247-264). This summary includes some paraphrasing.<\/p>\n<p>Five main ingredients of Christian leadership: clear vision, hard work, dogged perseverance, humble service, and iron discipline:<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Stott_184888c.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Stott_184888c.jpg?resize=320%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>1. <i>Vision<\/i>: act of seeing, an imaginative perceptions of things, combining insight and foresight&#8230;It is compounded of a deep dissatisfaction with what is and a clear grasp of what could be.<\/p>\n<p>2. <i>Industry<\/i>: men of vision need men of action. Not enough for Moses to envision the land, he had to gather the people.<\/p>\n<p>3. <i>Perseverance<\/i>: True work of God thrives on opposition. Its silver is refined and its steel hardened.<\/p>\n<p>4. <i>Service<\/i>: authority by which one leads in not power but love, not force but example, not by coercion but by reasoned persuasion.<\/p>\n<p>5. <i>Discipline<\/i>: knowing weakness, the greatness of the task &amp; the strength of the opposition, &amp; the inexhaustible riches of God&#8217;s grace.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Stott&#8217;s book\u00a0Involvement, vol. 2, the concluding essay entitled, &#8220;A Call for Christian Leadership&#8221; (247-264). This summary includes some paraphrasing. 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