Articles for tag: Leading By Example

January 31, 2018

Love, Marriage, and Missions

Four missionary couples discuss how their marriages affect their mission work, and vice versa. By Emily Drayne Some aspects of marriage are hard. It’s not easy joining together two lives, two families, two personalities, and two upbringings under one roof. Success in marriage takes work and desire. With divorce rates at about 50 percent in America and even higher in parts of Europe, I’ve often wondered how missionaries are affected by this epidemic. Not only are missionary couples working and maintaining their marriages, but they might also be serving in a cross-cultural setting. Some are also raising children. Missionaries might

August 19, 2014

Mark A. Taylor

Church Leadership

Lead On, Lead Up, Lead Now

By Mark A. Taylor No group will understand or fulfill its mission without a leader sounding the charge and setting the example. Eddie Lowen and I talked about this during my Beyond the Standard interview with him July 31. Churches need to be led, he said, and led by leaders with high integrity. We could say the same for school boards, corporations, or the government of any nation. But our experience with bad leadership in all of those environments may be one reason some are suspicious of leaders in the church. Can we find a leader more interested in his

January 7, 2013

Christian Standard

Church Leadership

How Do You Define Your Leadership? Tom Plank

By Tom Plank Fifty years ago, when I began my ministry, no one was talking about leadership, so everything I have learned has been by trial and error. One thing I have learned is that leadership begins at the top with the minister. People will not follow what you say so much as what you do. Set the example. All too often I have been around ministers who expected to be first in line for a carry-in dinner and the first to receive a compliment. These are the ministers who lose their effectiveness because they leave the impression it is

January 6, 2013

Christian Standard

Church Leadership

How Do You Define Your Leadership? Tom Claibourne

I know I am leading when . . . “¢ I inspire people to dream more, learn more, and become more. “¢ I see ahead what others can”t see. “¢ people thank me for taking a risk. “¢ not everyone agrees, most people follow, and some of the doubters later understand. “¢ I see people and love them (Mark 10:21). “¢ I help produce a healthy atmosphere in the church. “¢ I communicate well, verbally and in writing. “¢ I speak biblical truth boldly and in love to a confused, politically correct culture. “¢ I take advantage of all teachable

May 13, 2009

Christian Standard

Christian Living

The Final Challenge

By Mark A. Taylor Every sports fan knows the importance of ending well. We remember games won in the ninth inning, come-from-behind victories cinched in overtime, runners prevailing only in the final lap. All the game was important, but victory was sure only in the final seconds. Every gardener knows a successful harvest is the point of planting. Neat rows of new sprouts are attractive, and beautiful blooms on healthy vegetable vines are encouraging. But if by summer”s end the plants dry up, rot away, or become the food of garden pests, what real good is a garden? So it

October 22, 2006

Kendall Faull

Church Leadership Eldership

Shepherds Don’t Do That

A shepherd is a leader unlike managers, coaches, elected officials, lords, or boards. Kendall Faull explains biblical shepherding as humble, present, protective leadership that serves people and leads by example.