I was watching the promo video for an upcoming leadership conference thingy and one of the flashy texts that popped up during all the chaotic shots was the phrase ‘pure leadership adrenaline‘. What does that mean?
I have been turned off be the word Leadership for quite a while now. Generally when I go to a conference or some type of gathering for ministry minded people, inevitably the Leadership lingo ‘carpet bombs’ begin to drop. Everyone tripping over everyone else to quote the latest catch phrases; organic, discovery learning, scrumtralescent, etc.
I think the rising generation is turned off by leadership. People that are defined as leaders in the eyes of gen x and gen y are not what I think Christ had in mind for leadership.
I have found that the people most obsessed with leadership, are the people I least want to follow.
I think I saw it stated best over at kamp krusty. The sad thing is, that leader man will probably perfect the art of looking like a servant leader, and then write a book about it.
So what is the future of leadership?
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I have to agree with everything you say.
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I think leadership is a very important aspect to life. I just think that the church has bastardized it too often.
People need to be led, but people want things like humility, integrity, companionship, love, forgiveness, grace, and true loving, bettering discipline – you know, those characteristics of a leader named Jesus…
We’ve gotten it wrong so often. It’s up to us to get it back right.
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@alex // i agree that leadership is super important. I see it had all but replaced Christ as the center piece of life for chrisitian leaders.
‘leadership’ has become the solution, when the solution is Christ
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Whoa, I’ve never heard of scrumtralescent, (that’s not a real term, is it?), but anyway, I have already begun to come across several examples of what you wrote about regarding the leaderman perfecting the art of looking like the servant leader. Sometimes it makes you just want to throw your hands up and go live some kind of modern couch-potato monastic life… (but I know that’s not the answer, still….) I actually just visited your blog and the kamp krusty blog for the first time today, even though i’ve heard about Brant’s for a while now, and I have to say it’s so refreshing to just hear some other followers of Christ expressing the same kinds of frustrations. It’s good to know we’re not the only ones who get turned off by the marketing machine.
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@daniel // thanks for stopping by bro. yeah, leadership is really really important..but we need to keep our priorities in order.
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