Spiritual Life and Leadership
Ministry leadership is about more than just growing your church or organization. It’s about participating in God’s mission in the world. But how can leaders know God’s mission or their unique place in it? Faithful ministry leadership is rooted in a life of deep and abiding faithfulness to Jesus. In “Spiritual Life and Leadership,” Markus Watson and his guests explore what it means to be faithful leaders whose ministry flows from their ever-deepening relationship with God.
Spiritual Life and Leadership
58. Communion with Reality, with Esther Lightcap Meek, author of A Little Manual for Knowing
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Markus Watson
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In this episode, Esther Lightcap Meek and I talk about love as the starting point for truly knowing reality, what it means to experience communion with the real—and why this matters for the on-the-ground work that you and I are doing as leaders of God’s people.
THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
- Esther Lightcap Meek is Professor of Philosophy at Geneva College and author of A Little Manual for Knowing.
- In chapter one of A Little Manual for Knowing, Esther states that “reality is a gift, and love is at the core of all things. It is not impersonal; rather, it is person-like.”
- The pilgrimage of knowing begins with love, not with information.
- Active listening invites the real. Not mere passive collecting of information, but actively inviting reality to self-disclose.
- Because we’ve reduced knowledge in the modern West to little bits of information, we can’t see what is really there.
- We need to go into our communities in humility looking for what God is already at work doing there.
- Creation is in its essence the love of God. It is the expression of God’s love.
- When we truly begin to know reality, we enter into communion with that which is known.
RELEVANT RESOURCES AND LINKS
- Esther Lightcap Meek
- Books mentioned
- A Little Manual for Knowing by Esther Lightcap Meek
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