Take a look at Scot McKnight's new post on the Evangelical Flip. Here's a representative quote:
"So let me say this: (too many) evangelical leaders have become too enamored with management skills and techniques and have neglected the nitty-gritty of soaking themselves in the great texts of the Old and the New Testament."
What do you think?
I think that many of us would want to agree but many are afraid to bite the hand that feeds them.
ReplyDeleteI choose instead to be the square peg in the round hole and keep hammerin' away at the values that the Scriptures teach us, and live them just as much as I have opportunity to teach them.
The Scriptures are so chock full of the same kinds of principles discussed and dissected in "secular/spiritual" leadership books anyway, that it's sensible to turn to the Bible first, and then supplement it with the "other" readings.
That's probably a good approach - sometimes we just raise hostility when we confront philosophical issues head on. By continuing to live and teach from a more bibliocentric viewpoint, you can indirectly and peacefully make changes.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I notice that sometimes when leadership principles are removed too far from their contexts in Scripture (i.e., the principle is expressed in the abstract, without studying it in a passage), then the leadership principle somehow loses some of its power. Or maybe that's just because I feel most persuaded when I see it in Scripture.