by Ralph Enlow | Mar 27, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
One more time: godly leadership looks like … Over the past several posts, I have been reviewing the Bible’s use of three metaphors—steward, servant, shepherd—to contrast the sort of leadership God commends among His people with that which is typically practiced...
by Ralph Enlow | Mar 20, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
Leader: steward, servant and … Thus far, I have cited two ways in which the Bible employs the word “servant” to highlight the contrast between leaders of His people and worldly leaders. A steward leads by virtue of delegated authority and with a sense of...
by Ralph Enlow | Mar 13, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
Stark contrast The way the Bible describes leaders is clearly intended to contrast with the prevailing secular notions. Thus far, we have examined two of the three primary biblical leadership metaphors: steward (one with a sacred obligation to exercise oversight on...
by Ralph Enlow | Mar 6, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
Picking up where we left off … In previous posts, I have been reviewing the primary terms employed in the Bible to describe leaders—terms clearly intended to contrast with the prevailing secular notions. To be a leader is, first, to be a servant of the LORD. In...
by Ralph Enlow | Feb 28, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
Leadership as servanthood In my last post, I cited Oswald Sanders’ classic Spiritual Leadership in which he observes that common Hebrew and Greek language leadership terms are rarely used to describe leaders among God’s people. Instead, a biblical conception of...
by Ralph Enlow | Feb 21, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Edification |
A different vocabulary marks a different way I wrote previously that the Bible goes out of its way to distinguish the sort of leaders God has in mind for His people from conventional pagan terms and notions. Scripture typically avoids employing terminology ordinarily...
