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Thursday, May 13

Stewardship is the greatest hallmark of leadership

A plethora of leadership theories abound and there is much money to be made in finding another way. It suggests that we live in a world that is desperate for leadership. Yet I can't help feeling that once we drifted over a certain line into humanistic thinking or other fundamental philosphies, those foundations skewed the entire superstructure. Now, for all our soul searching, we are just getting into more trouble. Biblical leadership models were never complicated, elusive or exclusive - they were straightforward, echoed by Jesus' parables of the talents and the good steward. We need to get back to the basic tenet of leadership before we can hope to correct centuries of misguidedness. Leadership is essentially all about stewardship - get that wrong and nothing else will work.

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